Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holding this profitless bag, stop making any more 12? loans. But with the price of cotton threatened by a crop that is huge by 1935 standards of consumption, it was last week becoming politically more & more difficult for him to refuse to make another price-pegging loan offer. In effect, he was in that unfortunate position in which Herbert Hoover's Farm Board found itself when that luckless agency tried valiantly but vainly to peg the price of wheat...
...Administration sees no cause for anxiety in the present crop estimate. If, when the new crop began to move in volume, there appeared to be a tendency for prices to be depressed, the Administration would not hesitate to offer ample loans that would immediately absorb excess supplies...
When the League Council finally met to rubber stamp this formula, Ethiopia's Professor Jeze made his only score for the week. He glared at President Litvinoff and hissed: "You offer us the choice between suicide and assassination. Well, we prefer assassination...
...Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming up as much as 33% from last year. More than 50% of buyers are bona fide settlers. A farm near Omaha lately sold for $155 per acre, a half-section in Sac County, Iowa for $135 per acre. A northern Iowan reported an offer of $110 per acre for land he lately bought...
...their own actions, most U. S. piano makers buy them readymade. Biggest action manufacturer is Pratt, Read & Co. in Deep River, Conn. In Chicago last week Pratt, Read & Co. was showing the revolutionary action which it bought from William Finholm after that young inventor had turned down a small offer from Steinway & Sons. The Finholm action, approved by most music men who tried it in Chicago last week, is less complicated than the standard one which he hopes it will supersede. Chief feature is that it does away with eleven pounds of the lead which is used to weight...