Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted a resolution postponing the maturity of France's $400,000,000 debt to the U. S. for surplus war supplies from...
...second important task of the new board will be to help organize and finance special stabilization corporations among farmers to purchase surplus farm products from glutted seasonal markets and hold them in storage pending better prices. In the past such large-scale grain corporations on private capital and under private control have failed. It remains to be seen whether federal cash and supervision can make them successful. Critics of the new farm relief legislation predict that the Federal Farm Board will loan large sums to such corporations which in turn will buy in surplus commodities on a falling price market...
...land was: Will there be federal relief for this year's crops? Wheat men, dubious of such relief this season, pricked up their ears at a suggestion from North Dakota's Senator Nye that the U. S. should buy up 50 or 100 million bushels of surplus wheat, ship it to famished China as a gesture of goodwill...
...failure to achieve such a union was partly ascribed by Methodist Frank A. Horne to economic inefficiency. Said he: "Waste in church administration and unproductive expenditure constitutes a collective sin of the churches. The losses due to inefficiency are shown by the surplus of Protestant church edifices, with three times as many sittings as there are adherents. Under Roman Catholic unity that communion has an approximate proportion of two and a half communicants for every sitting...
...further award was announced at the same time that of a traveling scholarship to Edward Osborne Bassett of Watertown, who graduated magna cum Laude in Economics. This award was made possible by a surplus in the Shaw Fund...