Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buying practically all the mineral springs, letting them idle until the water table rose high enough to spurt water into the air. The State now bottles Saratoga waters, sells 24-pint cases for $4 each, expects to sell 400,000 cases a year and with the profits quickly repay the $3,200,000 R.F.C. loan...
...bankers were privileged to borrow from their own banks all that their own banks saw fit to lend. On that date the Banking Act of 1933 went into effect. One of its provisions prohibited bankers from borrowing from their own banks. Another required them to repay all such intramural loans by June 16, 1935. As that date approached last week many a borrowing banker was in a cold sweat. Loans outstanding totaled nearly $90,000,000. Penalty for failure to pay was fixed by the Banking Act at one year in jail, $5,000 fine. Bankers dispatched telegrams to Congress...
...supposed to repay the county, Bob Sweitzer appeared in the Board room with neither the $414,129, nor the $335,000, nor anything. He asked for and received an extension until 10:30 o'clock next morning. At that hour next day, seven Board members called at Sweitzer's office for the money. Sweitzer explained that since some of it was "coming from San Francisco," he wanted until 4 p. m. to make payment. Back in the Board room at 4:30, Bob Sweitzer asked for a further adjournment until 10:30 the following morning...
...only applicants smart enough to step forward with a plan embracing every project to be undertaken in their state, the La Follettes got $100,000,000 for Wisconsin. Strings: the State must raise another $105,000,000 needed for its 140-odd projects, must arrange to repay $30,000,000 of the Federal Government's advance...
...repay Harvard for the loan of her valuable hot dogs, Mr. Roosevelt might well lend University Hall Jim Farley for a couple of weeks. Fresh from national triumphs, it should be a small job for him to bring our troublesome commuters back into the fold where they will no longer tickle official digestions...