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Word: moneys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week two new Argentine destroyers were ready for delivery in British shipyards. A transport with a crew of 800 officers and sailors had arrived at London docks, ready to take over the war boats and sail them back to Buenos Aires. Unfortunately President Irigoyen had neglected to send any money. As Horatius defied the armies of Clusium, British shipbuilders stood on the bridge of their destroyers and refused to surrender them to the Argentine Navy. Not only did the Argentine Navy have no money to pay for the new destroyers, they had no money to pay port dues for their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Parsimonious President | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money spent on him as any other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Repeaters | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

Gossip. So soon as one or two banks closed their doors, came rumors that the whole banking structure of the State was on the point of collapse. Many a nervous depositor rushed to his bank, clamored for his money, brought on the very disaster that he feared. The bank failure climax came last week when Citizen's Bank & Trust Co. of Tampa closed its doors and carried down with it nine subsidiary banks. Between fruit flies, bad notes and wild rumors, a wholesale panic appeared imminent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Florida's Shakedown | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...airplane from Atlanta carrying one million dollars in cash. Nervous Tampa depositors, entering their banks, saw in tellers' cages great stacks of crisp, green, reassuring bills. Soon, by rail and motor, arrived an additional $4,000,000. "The banks," said Federal Reservist Taylor, "will have all the money they need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Florida's Shakedown | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...favorable conditions under which Commercial National came into being were the prevailing and continued high money rates. For a considerable period last spring loans to brokers bore interest at from 10% to 15% and time loans were well over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Exceptional Bank | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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