Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from $2,500 to $5,000 beginning July 1. Deposits insured total $15,700,000,000 belonging to fifty-six million accounts in 14,000 banks. This week under the $5,000 maximum, insured deposits will jump considerably. The Federal Government sidestepped because they would have necessitated a large scale reexamination of banks. Another reason given was that FDIC wanted to develop a more equitable system of assessing banks for the permanent guarantee...
...vaccinated 7,000 children. Both learned their technique from New York City, where for each of the past seven years Dr. William Hallock Park has treated 200 children. His results are promising, but the city is not ready to use B. C. G. vaccine on a large scale...
...poem of Herbert M. Howe '34 stressed the hope that Harvard's sons may attempt to scale new heights and with the words "Whatever works they may praise of merit or good fame shall be to three so noble crown of bays" drew a picture of the relation of success in later life to one's college. John Cotton Walcott '34 in his Ode pictured the purpose of Harvard is education to "First spur our intellect, home of our will, firm keep they face...
...audience of North Dakota farmers at Bismarck. "Man's methods may be full of imperfections . . . but they are perfection itself by comparison. . . ." The rainfall in the Midwest did not deter President Roosevelt in Washington from sending Congress a special message asking for $525,0.00,000 worth of "large-scale assistance" to be parcelled out as follows: 1) $125,000,000 to give farmers without fields work on roads, public buildings, wells. 2) $75,000,000 to buy half-starved live stock that otherwise would die. 3) $100,000.000 to put those cattle into cans to feed the needy...
...lawyers know, it is a long and thankless task to corral even two-thirds of any big company's creditors including bondholders. One of President Hoover's last acts was to sign a bankruptcy bill which was supposed to make it easy for railroads to scale down top-heavy funded debt. A dozen or more carriers have since plunged into bankruptcy under this law but not one has yet been able to climb...