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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margins. Texas' Wright Patman, chairman of the House Committee on Small Business, demanded that stock market margins be reduced from 75% to 50%. He pointed out that the buyer of an $1,800 auto must pay only $600 down, but the buyer of $1,800 of stock must still pay $1,350 down. Said Patman: high margins had "almost entirely dried up" the capital market. The Federal Reserve Board was "studying" the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...President had called on Congress to get in and pitch for the Patman housing bill. It was the key to the Wyatt Plan for mass-producing 2,700,000 new homes for veterans in the next two years (TIME, Feb. 18). It was something more-united Democratic action on it would be a sort of dress rehearsal for the coming fight on extending OPA controls and subsidies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Housing Pains | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...when the Patman bill came to a vote in the House last week, the Republican-Southern Democratic coalition had its way in a teller unrecorded vote. Down & out went major clauses the Administration wanted most: 1) allocation of $600,000,000 for subsidies, 2) price ceilings on existing homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Housing Pains | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

President Truman immediately asked Congress for price ceilings on both new and old houses, called for priorities which would channel 50% of U.S. building materials into the construction of houses costing $10,000 or less. The ceilings are provided for in a bill by Texas' Wright Patman, now under consideration by Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: 180° Turn | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

Elliott went back to his TBS, bought $75,000 worth of its stock. Hartford went back to his groceries and his worries over an anti-chain-store law which Representative Wright Patman of Texas was trying to push through Congress. If passed, the law would have cost the A. & P. many millions a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: A Loan from the Grocer | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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