Word: solvent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republicans: "Wage earners, you will pay and pay in taxes taken out of your pay envelopes, in taxes added to the things you buy-and when you are very old, you will have an I. O. U. which the U. S. Government may make good if it is still solvent." Said Democrats: "Workers, you will get something for nothing. The boss will have to pay much more than you do, and when you grow old, we will...
...long years I have been going up & down this country preaching that government-Federal and state and local-costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching. . . . I propose to you, my friends, and through you to the nation, that government of all kinds, big and little, be made solvent and that the example be set by the President of the United States and his Cabinet...
...municipalities who in effect have pooled their insolvencies with Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, today the representative of such SUPERINSOLVENCY that creditors of Germany throughout the world dare not for the sake of their own bluffs call his bluff and in effect Germany gets along as if she were solvent...
...meteorological and commercial reasons, when summer ends, the radio season begins. Some broadcast sponsors think programs may be spoiled by summer static; others believe listeners are cool when the weather is warm. By last week, however, practically every solvent producer of consumer goods in the U. S., cheered by signs of recovery (see col. i), had laid his plans to tap the national pocketbook by tickling the national ear with the mightiest and most expensive free show since radio began...
Thirteen years ago Dr. Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis obtained thousands of gallons of urine from pregnant women in lying-in hospitals. To extract the potent substance he was looking for, he devised his own condensers, experimented with distilling apparatus, tried one solvent after another. In August 1929 he reported isolation of the hormone in pure crystals. It was present in the parent fluid to an extent of one part in 4,000,000. Since then theelin has been used to treat hemophilia, periodic migraine, menstrual disorders, infantilism, frigidity, delayed puberty, physical and psychic malaises associated with the menopause...