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Word: solvents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stands at $50,000,000 (its surplus is $20,000,000). This amounts not to the traditional 10% but to only 4.1% of deposits. However, Continental Illinois has nearly as much cash and governments ($1,111,078,283) as deposits ($1,212,371,248) and was as solvent as could be. Onetime RFC Employe Cummings was in a position to tell Boss Jones to go whistle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Out of Hock | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Under 776, the company's Common stockholders had got over 67% of preferred holders to agree to a plan giving them a piece of the solvent, new company (to be known as Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.), had got their plan past the Federal courts as fair, feasible and equitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Specialists | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...present the Crimson is less excited, if no less concerned, about the situation in the Faculty than it was last June. It appears, although it has never been stated to the student, that a stabilized budget is making solvent administration of this university more difficult. Certainly there can be no objection by students to wise and necessary economics. But confusion is rife among them as to exactly how they are affected by supposed economics and the educational policies underlying them. Perhaps the relations between the Administration and the Faculty are not yet of immediate concern to students, and they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACULTY'S FIRST ROUND | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

...Richman Foundation lends without interest to the solvent employes, makes outright gifts to the financially distressed. From it $10 a week is paid to employes on sick leave. Women employes get ten weeks off at $10 a week to have their babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Daddy | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...costing about 10?, balls can be made to last for 100 years. Played like four-wall handball, kin to pelota, pallone and other Basque games, it was probably originated by bored debtors in Fleet Street prison about 1800. Like court tennis, it was soon taken over by the notably solvent, is now the luxury of a comparative handful in the U. S. on 14 courts in exclusive clubs. Main U. S. racqueteer is a Manhattan broker, Robert Grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts & Racquets | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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