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...session in Washington, the Federal Reserve Board announced a 50% increase in reserve requirements for member banks, effective Aug. 15. After nearly a year of public and private debate over the inflationary dangers of excess reserves, Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles had finally taken up the slack in the elaborate brake system provided by the Banking Act of 1935 to stop runaway credit expansion...
...which will be shared between localities and a national Mormon fund. This fund is to be swelled by contributions from solvent Mormons who will be expected to abstain from at least two meals on one Sunday each month (minimum estimated cost: 5? per meal). Mormons who have been slack about tithing 10% of income to their Church will be prodded into action...
This does not mean that 2,000,000 families are now camping in the woods waiting for houses to be built for them. Building has merely fallen behind the net increase in the number of families and the normal rate of housing obsolescence. The slack has been more than taken up by two or more families sharing what is rated as a one-family house or apartment. During Depression the usual method of doubling up was for young married couples to return to their parents or for parents to descend upon their married children...
...again showed signs of passing him, but the game Chevrolet driver depressed his accelerator a bit more and drew away. And so the informal race continued, the Chevrolet playing with the Ford in much the same way that a fisherman casts for small-mouthed Bass-giving him plenty of slack and then drawing...
That this will be a news account of the future was announced last week by Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams in a letter to Florida's Representative J. Mark Wilcox, promising $300,000 of WPA funds for the immediate erection of nine storm barracks. During the slack hurricane season, he said, the shelters will be the scene of teaching operations, church sociables...