Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cash and Government securities represent the bank's ready money. This expressed as a percentage of deposits is the bank's liquidity. Because U. S. depositors have been on pins & needles, ready to yank out their deposits in cash at a whisper of trouble, U. S. bankers have for months been keeping their banks highly liquid. But a highly liquid bank earns little money for stockholders. Cash earns no keep; Government bonds, particularly Treasury certificates, return a very low yield. Bankers point with pride at their ready money only because it bolsters confidence. Both the bankers and President...
Millions of Southern sons who served in the World War, among whom can be found the Army's outstanding hero, did not like the molly- coddling label "Buddy," sparkled under the affectionate dub of "Yank," did a good job, came home and are proud of it. There are legions of these Yankees in the South today, native sons, proud of their heritage, regretting nothing which their forefathers did, convinced that they were right through & through and who would take up tomorrow where they left off if there was a sufficient Cause but who fully realize that the true United...
Pilot P. G. Stevens glanced aft at the four passengers in his Buhl Airsedan over Santa Ana, Calif, one day last week, then gave a lever a yank. Instantly steel arms gripped the front pair of passengers. A door alongside each flipped outward. The steel arms swung each passenger, chair & all, to the end of a davit clear of the ship. Automatic trips released the chairs and down they dropped, dragging after them parachutes which had been stowed into the bottom of the fuselage. Three seconds later the pilot yanked again and the other two passengers were swung...
...easy job. If you take your hands out of the water for more than a second they will freeze solid. The only way is to take the cartilage of the fish's nose in your teeth, squeeze his body to make it smaller, and yank him out of the meshes. All the time the hands must be kept under the water. The Eskimo method is to dangle a small ivory fish with a hook on it. By this means they catch four or five fish a day at the ice hole. We hope to show them that by our methods...
...askew, twisted the propellers into pretzels-one blade piercing the envelope. Before the ground crew could capture the ship an up-draught bounced it away again into the gale, ballooning crazily and quite out of control. Over the flatlands near Flushing Bay Pilot Dixon signalled Mechanic John Blair to yank the ripcord which would open a 25-ft. gash in the top of the helium cell, dropping the blimp instantly. Mechanic Blair leaned from a gondola window, put his weight on the cord, fell out to his death. The Columbia collapsed in a tangle of metal and fabric. From...