Word: buys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Houses ruled that the Navy could buy no more foreign canned beef-after Mr. Roosevelt had stung Western Congressmen last week by declaring that the Argentine brand was better than the U. S. brand...
...least of her errors was failure to invite to her royal garden party Minority Leader Charles L. McNary and 50 other Senators. Congress must modify the Neutrality Act before the British can buy U. S. planes during war time...
...operations lay ahead-October would start the 1939 auto model year off with a bang. Soon all steel-peddling haunts buzzed with reports that auto production schedules called for 1,000.000 1939 cars by year's end. At a ton of steel per car, Detroit would have to buy 1,000,000 tons. Buick had just bought 35,000 tons. Ford was shopping for 50,000 tons. For the steel industry the days of on & up were coming back...
...disputed Ford's claim for credit in securing the reduction. Meanwhile, large steel orders by the motormakers are probably two months off, for the auto companies have enough steel on hand to last until large scale production begins on 1940 models and want to be sure their big buying is done at the bottom, not on the way down. Aggressive National Steel Co., always up front among the price cutters, admitted that it didn't "know what the price is," was reported taking fill-in business from all comers to be rolled in one lot when enough...
...January 1938, unable to borrow anywhere else, it got $8,233,000 from RFC to pay its wages (it already owed RFC $80,000,000). In June, without collateral for another loan, it met a $1,700,000 debt only because Jesse Jones arranged for PWA to buy the road's run-down Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, unused for 15 years, for $2,000,000. Last November the Interstate Commerce Commission allowed Dan Willard to cut his fixed charges $11,000,000 a year by persuading the bondholders to accept an eight-year moratorium on interest payments. Last week...