Word: also
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business done in the U. S., for even a cash transaction, such as an employer paying off his workmen with currency, is customarily preceded by drawing a check to obtain the cash. Bank loans are not, of course, a direct measure of inventories [because they are also used for plant expansion, payrolls, etc.], but they are an excellent gauge of the trend of inventories, for businessmen customarily borrow when they lay in larger supplies of raw materials, customarily pay off their loans when they let inventory run off. In order to keep purely financial transactions from unduly influencing the Index...
...Associated directly, but its good operating company, NY PA NJ Utilities Co. (Nypan), is trying to borrow money so that Associated can pay off an $8,589,-980 (8%) bond issue which is due March 15, 1940. Also overdue is $5,780,000 owed the U. S. Treasury by Associated as the balance of an $8,700,000 settlement of a $50,000,000 tax claim. Mange wants RFC to lend NY PA NJ enough to pay off the bonds, pay the taxes; he is also asking for another lump for construction, $26,500,000 in all. The catch...
...plow concealed under the table, so that the land, too, may be blessed). At pasterka, or midnight mass, the swelling Gdy się Chrystus Rodzi (When Christ the Lord is Born) is sung, and the carolers take to the streets, rollicking the happy My tez Pastuszkowie (We Also Shepherds...
...prostitute-waif from The Black Book by the English Writer Lawrence Durrell) that seemed creative indeed, many more that seemed fashionably frantic in technique as in content. A section on "American design" was atrociously badly designed. Question: does editorship of such a publication demand merely a generous ear, or also an exacting...
...Expatriate Henry Miller (TIME, Nov. 21, 1938). It did not do so. The book had been published in Paris in 1934 and was considered by severe critics to be, even in its fantasies, of extraordinary documentary power. It was also known to a number of readers as a piece of uproarious pornography. Rather than invite another legal battle like that over Joyce's Ulysses, Publisher Laughlin last month brought out The Cosmological Eye, a book of more or less castrated selections from Miller's writing. By doing this much, New Directions called attention to Miller's latest...