Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Franklin Roosevelt's plan for reorganizing the U. S. Government was beaten in a bitter legislative battle amid cries of "Dictator!" from Father Coughlin and Publisher Frank Gannett. Last week another reorganization bill passed-with no national hullabaloo, but after a right smart fight in Congress...
...more territory Adolf Hitler takes, the more his financial ministers have to worry about. Last week they announced a desperate "New Financial Plan" which illustrates why German economists have grey hair...
...plan was both complicated and risky. In its simplest terms it was intended to work as follows: The Government will issue fiat money (paper without gold or silver backing) to pay the Heinkel works, say, for airplanes. Next year when Heinkel comes to pay corporation taxes, it pays not in cash but in the fiat certificates. Meanwhile Heinkel may, if it wishes, use the certificates to help pay for purchases of Duralumin, rivets, engine parts. In transactions other than tax payments certificates may never exceed 40% of the purchase price, the rest to be paid in cash. What the plan...
...stands, and roared into the second trip around the course. But back of the leaders, out of the crush, Workman was running easily under the crafty hand of Irish Tim Hyde, a veteran of many years of chasing, a gentleman jockey turned pro. He was following the plan the illustrious George Stevens used to bring in his record five winners, before he was tossed to ignominious death in 1871 by a cob he was riding home over a rocky byroad. Stevens used to hang back until most of the field had harried each other into the ditches and hedges, then...
...universities to see what could be done about founding a school that would give young engineers a better chance to find work. He was helped by General Motors' Research Director Charles Kettering and University of Cincinnati's Dean Herman Schneider, originator of a "cooperative" plan of engineering study...