Word: par
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cornell brings with them a heavy boatload that in its only race of the season was beaten by Navy's great eight by a length and three quarters. Both the Crimson and the Big Red use the short Washington stroke. The Syracuse crew is definitely below par...
...fashioned but par for its type. Without Warning is not recommendable to those who are made uncomfortable by exploding hand grenades, falling crates, sudden darkness...
...together, one gauge of such a picture's merit is the speed with which this excuse is forthcoming. The plot of Shall We Dance? is so involved that the picture is almost half over before they dance together. Once it starts, Astaire & Rogers are well up to their par and most cinemaddicts will doubtless consider it well worth waiting...
This week Mr. Chamberlain announced that the Government would shortly issue ?100,000,000 ($500,000,000) in 2½% National Defense Bonds, priced at 99½, all to be redeemed at par...
...print money. If the price of Government bonds should take a serious nose dive, we would have a new bank holiday-or else. The assets of banks, trusts and insurance companies are loaded with them. The Government would almost certainly be forced to make them redeemable at par-in paper money-the ultimate spilling of the beans. The President is no fiat money man. That leaves only reduced spending. But isn't that political ruin? Is this the end of the rope...