Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sloppy fluctuating marketing system. Congress is now called to remedy this situation, to provide "relief." The remedy as contained in the House farm bill: A new Federal Board with $500,000,000 in credits. Farm producers would join in cooperative associations to which the Federal Board would loan money at 4%. With this money the cooperatives would buy and hold enough of the crop to keep the supply down to the demand, thus eliminating a surplus, keeping up prices. Off-season they would dribble out for sale their crop holdings at a steady price. Likewise, to get more...
...Walker, Inc. To Mr. Dyer's delight, the stock went up to 93⅞. He held on. Then the shares slid down to 66. Not until then did Mr. Dyer learn, he says, that Hiram Walker is a Canadian whiskey stock. His shock and grief at losing his money were exceeded only by his vexation at learning he had become involved in a liquor business. He sold his stock at a loss and, last week, wrote a letter of protest to the New York Curb Association, the market where Hiram Walker is listed. Loudly he protested that dealings...
...payable over 58 years.* Since the people of Germany roughly number 60,000,000, each man, woman, child and babe in the Reich is faced with a reparations debt of $466. Even in the U. S. there are babes to whom $466 is quite a pot of money. Still, to a really potent babe (born yesterday and with 58 years in which to grow up paying on the installment plan), even $466 or 1,957 gold marks may not seem onerous. Certainly nothing plaintive was said last week by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and chief...
There were several young Americans in the rebel air forces in Mexico last week. Most were fighting for money. One said he was fighting for love...
Chief of those who have been fighting for money was Captain Edward Barber, who returned to Philadelphia last week, taking one of General Escobar's fighting planes with him, war paint...