Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money glut by increasing excess member bank reserves, already amounting to $2,800,000,000. If bankers could find borrowers, those reserves would permit an expansion of credit to ten times $2,800,000,000 and create a boom that would dwarf the 1920's. Such a runaway boom is what most people mean when they talk about Inflation...
...they made their first appearance in 1923 but, though the class has grown since then, no new boats have appeared in the past year while the Norwegians have been building 25. Improvements in design, yachtsmen felt, might easily make last week's series a runaway for Norna. Expertly sailed, marvelously fast against the wind, she nosed out Challenge in the first two races. The Committee had a case of champagne put on ice the next afternoon, so that when Skipper Konow got his Cup he would not be disappointed...
...loss of its regular No. 1, Captain Michael P. Ansell, who chipped a bone in his wrist last month. Eric Tyrell-Martin. who showed the effects of a winter's polo at Del Monte, Calif., played above his seven-goal U. S. handicap. Far from the runaway that the crowd half expected, the game turned out to be a tight struggle in which the score was tied seven times and in which the goal that finally won, 9-to-8, for the Hurricanes, was scored in the last chukker when Hurlingham was addition ally burdened because...
...Later, when he got his own distilleries, he beat out his rivals by selling direct to retailers. A tall, beaming sales man with a sleek, well-fed look, Julius Kessler managed to pump the hands of at least 40,000 U. S. liquor dealers. That gave him such a runaway advantage that Distillers Securities Corp. ("The Whiskey Trust") put itself and its surplus stocks in his hands. Under President Kessler the "Whiskey Trust" had a brief period of profits before Prohibition reduced it to messing around with yeast, vinegar, denatured alcohol...
...Senate's failure was Judge John E. Mack, conducting a utilities investigation for the New York Legislature. For six months Judge Mack has been trying, with a notable lack of success, to find Mr. Hopson. At Albany last week he quoted from The Scarlet Pimpernel on Runaway Hopson: They seek him here, they seek him there...