Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be sign it Bunnie or Run, or why sign it? She certainly would know. And thus did Bunnie set his curse on man. He wrote his letter, a trembling, wandering note. The next day was Sunday, but on Monday he was up betimes and he was forced to pull that lost shilling trick three times before his Valentine have in sight. Hello, but there was someone with her. Like a statue that has been smashed in the moving he stood and watched. They were upon him and as they swept by he heard, my God, he heard...
...every possible aid should be given them to preserve their credit and to meet their obligations by selling goods rather than by exporting gold. This was desirable not only on account of the debtors themselves but of the world as a whole, since depreciation in some currencies tended to pull down the general price level and to intensify the depression throughout the world...
...work and to accentuate the depreciation of many currencies, such was the net result of our tariff. If the drastic decline in interest rates here and the premium on dollar exchange had not produced during 1930 a record-breaking export of short-term funds from the United States, our pull upon the world's gold supply would have been far more disastrous...
...world; adherence to our traditional, policy means that we shall attract gold in great volume and jeopardize the gold standard in many countries whenever we fall to lend abroad on a large scale. A few people mistakenly believe that our recent heavy gold losses indicate that our pull upon the world's gold supply has ceased. But these losses are only temporary and have been largely due to the conversion of foreign bank balances and bill holdings here into gold. The effect is to strengthen rather than to effect our creditor position, which is the basis of our pull...
...require to discover--the effects of our present policy? This is a question of great practical importance. Will the experience of the present depression be sufficient? Or must we have another object lesson in the interdependence of nations, must we go through another depression, intensified and prolonged by our pull on the world's gold supply, before our business leaders realize that we cannot add to the world's disaster without inflicting injury upon ourselves...