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Left. By David Belasco, theatrical producer (TIME, May 25, 1931): $1,249,144 (shrunk to $621,162 last June); mostly to his Daughter Reina, wife of Producer Morris Gest...
...School Life (paid circulation 10,000-largest of any Government organ) describes for teachers the "Children's Code" (child labor ban), tells how school districts may apply for Public Works funds for building. School Life asks: "Can you name the ten new Federal agencies whose long names have shrunk to initial letters? Do you know the purpose of each of these ten weapons
...that neither should we permit it to become a football for politicians. . . . We [Brooklyn Trust Co.] made an analysis of all applications for business loans ranging from $2,000 upwards received during the first eight months of this year. . . . We found that the demand for business credit had shrunk 50% from the corresponding period in the preceding year-which was itself a slack period. We also found that we had granted 81% of all the business credit applied for. ... I want to suggest that other bankers analyze all of their policies ... be prepared to answer critics with facts. . . . 'That...
...condition was Barclays. Its total resources of $1,971,900,000 topped Chase by $250,000,000. Chase would have lost its title before this had it not had the advantage of a depreciated pound between 1931 and last April, for Chase resources in the last three years have shrunk steadily from a high of $2,600,000,000 to $1,700,000,000. In Britain, where branch banking is almost the only banking, the "Big Five"- Midland, Lloyds, Barclays, National Provincial, Westminster-control 80% of the business. In May Midland led the London race with resources...
...common difficulties concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce: the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. A host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment...