Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Secretary Wallace had asked for benefit payments and crop loans to farmers who restrict their acreage, the Senate gave him: i) $225,000,000 for parity payments (to recompense farmers for the difference between present prices and the higher prices of "normal" years), and 2) $203,000,000 (instead of $90,000,000 asked) to subsidize the export of crop surpluses...
...this overseas capital and revenues from a merchant marine second only to England's were more than enough to make up the difference. To back a note circulation of 1,800,000,000 marks the Reichsbank held 1,370,000,000 marks in gold-double the coverage considered normal in 1914. Another two billion marks in gold currency were in circulation among the people. These liquid reserves made it easy for Germany to market her war bonds-and had she won there would never have been an inflation as insane as that...
...imports and exports. Out of these equilibrist schemes grew the blocked currency accounts and the barter devices, with the Germans paying foreign exporters in special marks good only for German goods at a price lower than the internal price level. Boycotts and currency difficulties kept lopping off chunks of normal German trade with England, the U. S., and Soviet Russia, but export subsidies to the extent of 30% of the value of all German exports enabled Nazi businessmen to quote speciously attractive prices to the Balkans and South America, regions with surpluses of grain, tobacco, oil, cotton, coffee and cocoa...
...years ago Dr. Glenn E. Willhelmy of St. Louis, a Naval Reserve dentist, reported to the Navy that such ear troubles, along with attacks of vertigo (". . . if mild the pilot does not mention it ... if severe, he crashes"), were most often found in older airmen. His conclusion was that normal wear and loss of teeth make jaws shut out of position, cause a partial closure of the Eustachian tubes. His remedy: an up-building of teeth by inlays and other dental means to make a youthful...
...excluding Siberia--the richest in the world. Benefits from the potential investment would accrue to both halves of the American continent. But the risks to private capital arising from unstable political equilibrium and the record of debt repudiation in the past make it unlikely if not impossible that under normal circumstances this capital would ever be put to work...