Word: swelling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...certainly did a swell job in color reproduction in the issue of TIME for March 2. It was so good, in fact so superior to the customary job of color reproduction, that the Director of the Cleveland School of Art wondered whether TIME would be willing to lend, rent, or sell the color plates of my "Emancipation" panel for use in their school catalog for 1936-7. . . .DANIEL BOZA...
Sure it's a swell oath. You made it up, didn't you? And you made it pretty plain what the score was going to be in this teaching racket. Don't forget, Curley told you it was just what the State and the people needed...
...time and work in building up a public. Of course not all good athletes have the ability to act. Some of them seem muscle bound or something. Max Baer is a good example of a talented athlete who made good in pictures, but he got much too swell headed...
...With good, bad and indifferent reports still to be filed, Standard Statistics took a long breath and figured that when all the returns were in the final result would be some 40% ahead of 1934 earnings. On this basis, earnings of the major U. S. companies would, roughly, swell from a little more than one billion to almost one and one half billion dollars. Recovery leaned too heavily on the motor industry to be satisfactory from the standpoint of a general return to good times. But many a corporation was reporting the best year since 1930, many more the best...
...banker's power to create credit is the amount of his reserves. At present U. S. banks have excess reserves of more than $3,000,000,000, and if they could find enough borrowers they could conceivably create some $30,000,000,000 of credit. That would swell the total supply of bank money by two-thirds, cause a violent rise in prices. A number of bankers, led by Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank, think that excess reserves should be reduced before inflation gets going. This No. 1 U. S. banker declared last December that...