Word: obtaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual report last week (see col. 1) the Federal Reserve Board noted that in 1936 securities issued to obtain new capital amounted to $1,200,000,000, or more than the aggregate for the previous four years combined. During the first five months of 1937 new corporate capital financing totaled $526,187,000 compared to $310,709,000 in the same period of 1936. Notable issues: by Johns-Manville, $10,000,000 in common stock; by Pennsylvania Railroad, $52,000,000 in debentures; by Burlington Mills, $3,150,000 in common stock; by Fruehauf Trailer...
...that the financial condition of States and cities has materially improved since 1933, argued that his requirement would prevent shameless attempts to raid the Federal Treasury. At the White House the President retorted by telling newshawks it was unfair to make communities take a "pauper's oath" to obtain Relief grants...
...ways as she slid down into the water. Fire and plague beset her voyages. Slaving, outlawed by international agreement in 1814, was practiced in the middle of the century by a few renegade skippers who risked hanging for the $600 to $1,000 per head they could obtain...
Result was that Franklin Roosevelt, when he gave in, was not able to dictate a compromise. Instead he had to put the whole matter into the hands of Senator Robinson, trusting him to obtain the best terms available. This was a new relationship, not seen in more than four years, between White House and Capitol. Just as an expectant mother commands a certain ethereal prestige above other women, so Joe Robinson, as an expectant Justice of the Supreme Court, has become since Justice Van Devanter's retirement a sort of Super-Senator with a prestige all his own among...
...small ones, it was stated that the large companies have well-developed absorption plans, while the small ones are not yet sold on the possible usefulness and value of the college trained man to them. The fact was also brought out that the large firms use aggressive tactics to obtain "the cream of the crop," leaving the small ones to choose from the remainder...