Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt you will be getting a lot of letters soon like the above. But don't let it concern you I imagine the vast majority of your readers will get the mighty "belly laugh" I experienced over said article. I immediately went up to town and bought me a copy of Esquire You ought to charge that magazine for that hot-shot advertisement. I'll be flying down to Rio soon...
...shipments to the U. S. have totaled $197,700,000. Since early December 1932 France has lost over $2,000,000,000 in gold, much of which has come to the U. S. to build up one huge $10,786,000,000 gold reserve. Ever since Depression hit, such vast sums of migratory capital have charged about the world like tons of drifting cannon balls rolling loose in the hold of a storm-tossed economic ship. Last summer the Department of Commerce estimated that foreigners had $1,200,000,000 deposited in U. S. banks and invested in short term...
...week Joseph Pulitzer's old paper, the liberal St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which supported Wilson in 1916, Cox in 1920, Davis in 1924, Smith in 1928 and Roosevelt in 1932, announced that in 1936 it will oppose the re-election of Roosevelt. Reason: It opposes a government "with vast and centralized authority over the economic life of the nation...
Super-Secrets. The office of whoever happens to be French Finance Minister is in the vast Palace of the Louvre at the end of interminable marble stairs. With its walls of red & gold, its enormous twinkling crystal chandeliers and its delicate and beautiful antique furniture, it resembles nothing so much as the boudoir of a Royal courtesan. In this setting last week heavy Radical Socialist Finance Minister Vincent Auriol, whose right eye droops half shut behind his tortoise-shell glasses, received correspondents in the dead of night. He had left President Lebrun and Premier Blum soon after midnight...
...thing, it should be self-evident by this time that "stabilization funds" are the instruments of economic nationalism, that secret manipulation of the exchange rates, like protective tariffs, is used for purely national ends. And today the three countries concerned have created vast stabilization funds and propose to use them separately within the vague framework of an informal agreement. With the understanding but a week old, yesterday's news brings report of a disagreement already existing between Great Britain and the United States as to what the parity should be between the dollar and the pound, for, as might...