Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese Navy before 1930 held a 6-10 ratio to the U.S. fleet...
Only on capital ships and aircraft carriers was the U. S.-Japanese naval ratio 10-6 before...
...White House President Hoover commented upon a number of things which pleased him. The Federal Reserve System ratio of reserves to deposits and notes remained unchanged for the week at 59.9%. Currency in circulation decreased $24,000,000, showed hoarding less popular. Wheat was up 20? from its low; cotton advanced $6 a bale. Appearing in Washington before the Senate Committee on Manufactures, New York's important Banker Albert Henry Wiggin (Chase National) was questioned by young Senator Robert Marion La Follette...
...rediscount rate to 3½%> a 1%, advance from the rate established last fortnight and 2% higher than the rate which prevailed from May 8 to Oct. 9. Through losses of gold to foreign countries and to U. S. hoarders, the Federal Reserve System showed last week a 61.8%, ratio of gold to deposit and notes outstanding against 67.1% the week before, 78.4%, before England suspended gold payments Sept. 21. Legal minimum is 40%. In four weeks the U. S. lost $649,000,000 in gold, largest monthly drain on record. Previous record was a loss of $99.300.000 in June...
...secret diplomatic dispatches from Tokio to Washington during the Washington Conference, which were decoded and translated, showing that a policy of delay on the part of the British and Americans was sure to force the Japanese to retreat, as they did, from their demand for a ten-to-seven ratio. From this one would conclude, that, with the Black Chamber closed, the United States went into the London Naval Conference and will go into any future conference at a disadvantage, unless foreign powers follow Secretary Stimpson's example, "Stud poker is not a very difficult game after you see your...