Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consequent extension of credit by the Federal Reserve system; 3) the increase of speculation by "powerful groups" and the general public, which "believed and acted as if the price of securities would indefinitely advance"; 4) the reversal of Federal Reserve policy, sending money rates aloft...
...James Couzens, Michigan's millionaire Senator, the U. S. Treasury last week sent a check for $989,833. The Senator accepted it, though noting formally that there was a "slight miscalculation" of $20,000 or more for interest. The money was a tax refund which Senator Couzens won as the result of a fight started by the Internal Revenue Bureau three years ago to increase the Couzens profit-tax on Ford Motors stock sold by him in 1919 (TIME, January...
...figure for 1929, $3,637,079,024.09 had already been appropriated and President Coolidge was emphatic in warning Congress to be prudent this session, not to vote any extra money without providing new sources of revenue...
...allotment by 16 millions. President Coolidge pointed out that the cost of national defense has increased about 100 millions since 1926 but explained that "in these prior years the defense establishments have had the use of surplus left over from the war." The President declared himself satisfied that money for the Army and Navy air services was well spent. Besides Army & Navy flying, the U. S. air program is carried forward by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and the Post Office, Agriculture and Commerce Departments. More than 140 millions was provided for the aeronautical work of these branches...
...female Ford. She always traveled by motor, in a long luxurious limousine, with a duplicate car following behind. "I have not an hour to lose on the road, in case of breakdowns," she would explain, "I say with the Americans, whose methods I follow, 'Time is money...