Word: parred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earnings over $25,000; 2) permit a two-year carryover of profits & losses and remove the $2,000 loss limit for corporations; 3) permit corporations to revalue upward their securities for two years, to ease their excess profits taxes; 4) permit retirement of bonds and notes below par without taxation. > (In Appropriations Committee) rejected President Roosevelt's and Admiral Byrd's request for a $340,000 claiming expedition to Antarctica. > Rejected a Senate bill authorizing TVA to sell $100,000,000 of bonds to buy utility properties; adopted instead a bill authorizing $61,500,000 of bonds...
...second shot. The ball struck a spectator flush on the temple, knocked him unconscious. Completely unnerved as State troopers carried the stricken man off to the clubhouse, Wood flubbed an eight-foot putt while Nelson dropped his for a birdie 4. Wood and Nelson were tied again-with sub-par 68s (Shute shot...
...Bingham stated that the eliminations in the budget were proposed for financial reasons. The vital Varsity football gate receipts on the 1938-39 schedule were not as large as anticipated. Returns on the 1939-40 season are also expected to be below par because of games with Chicago, New Hampshire and Bates...
...ideas: 1) Creation of a Public Works Finance Corp. to finance self-liquidating Federal, State, municipal public works "at any rate of interest . . . necessary to get the business done." 2) To insure loans to small business, FHA style, "to put the small man who cannot finance internally on a par with large corporations." 3) To appoint a special subcommittee, reporting to Congress, on the feasibility of organizing capital credit banks to make capital available alike to government (Federal & local) and to private enterprise. "No panacea," Berle pontificated, "with these three bills we should have the elements for a modern financial...
...falling under 16? while the Chinese dollar held firm at 16.11?. For the Japanese, who have been trying to persuade the Chinese that their money was just as good as Chiang Kai-shek's and who have made valiant efforts to keep Japanese-sponsored currency at par with the British and U S-supported Chinese dollar, this was as serious as a big defeat on the battlefield Many a Chinese coolie, farmer or worker in Japanese "conquered" territory has even on pain of death preferred the "harder" Chinese money, which could be changed at any time to western currency...