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Index Reconstruction Finance Corporation

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was an independent agency of the United States federal government that served as a lender of last resort to US banks and businesses.[1]

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  1. 78 relations: Abacá, Aerial firefighting, Altus Air Force Base, Arizona, Arkansas, Atlee Pomerene, Aviation museum, Bank failure, Bank run, Board of Economic Warfare, Boeing, Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, Boots Adams, California, Central America, Charles G. Dawes, Charles Henderson (Nevada politician), Chicago, Collateral (finance), Commodity Credit Corporation, Defense Plant Corporation, Deflation, Democratic Party (United States), Deposit account, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Emergency Banking Act of 1933, Emergency Relief and Construction Act, Emil Schram, Eugene Meyer (financier), Export–Import Bank of the United States, Fannie Mae, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Federal Reserve, Foreign Economic Administration, General Services Administration, Glass–Steagall Act of 1932, Great Depression in the United States, Harry S. Truman, Herbert Hoover, Independent agencies of the United States government, Interbank lending market, Jamie Whitten, Japan, Jesse H. Jones, Kirtland Air Force Base, Lauchlin Currie, Lend-Lease, Lender of last resort, Leo Crowley, ... Expand index (28 more) »

  2. 1932 establishments in the United States
  3. 1957 disestablishments in the United States
  4. Agencies of the United States government during World War II
  5. Corporations chartered by the United States Congress
  6. Government agencies disestablished in 1957
  7. Government agencies established in 1932
  8. Herbert Hoover
  9. National development banks
  10. New Deal agencies
  11. United States government-sponsored enterprises

Abacá

Abacá (Spanish) (Abaka), Musa textilis, is a species of banana endemic to the Philippines.

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Aerial firefighting

Aerial firefighting, also known as waterbombing, is the use of aircraft and other aerial resources to combat wildfires.

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Altus Air Force Base

Altus Air Force Base (Altus AFB, AAFB) is a United States Air Force base located approximately east-northeast of Altus, Oklahoma.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States.

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Atlee Pomerene

Atlee Pomerene (December 6, 1863 – November 12, 1937) was an American Democratic Party politician and lawyer from Ohio.

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Aviation museum

An aviation museum, air museum, or air and space museum is a museum exhibiting the history and artifacts of aviation.

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Bank failure

A bank failure occurs when a bank is unable to meet its obligations to its depositors or other creditors because it has become insolvent or too illiquid to meet its liabilities.

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Bank run

A bank run or run on the bank occurs when many clients withdraw their money from a bank, because they believe the bank may fail in the near future.

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Board of Economic Warfare

The Office of Administrator of Export Control (also referred to as the Export Control Administration) was established in the United States by Presidential Proclamation 2413, July 2, 1940, to administer export licensing provisions of the act of July 2, 1940 (54 Stat. 714). Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Board of Economic Warfare are agencies of the United States government during World War II and Defunct agencies of the United States government.

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Boeing

The Boeing Company (or simply Boeing) is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide.

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Boeing 377 Stratocruiser

The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a large long-range airliner developed from the C-97 Stratofreighter military transport, itself a derivative of the B-29 Superfortress.

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Boots Adams

Kenneth Stanley "Boots" Adams (August 31, 1899 – March 30, 1975) was an American business executive, University of Kansas booster, and civic philanthropist of Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Central America

Central America is a subregion of North America.

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Charles G. Dawes

Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 under Calvin Coolidge.

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Charles Henderson (Nevada politician)

Charles Belknap Henderson (June 8, 1873November 8, 1954) was an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as United States Senator from Nevada.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Collateral (finance)

In lending agreements, collateral is a borrower's pledge of specific property to a lender, to secure repayment of a loan.

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Commodity Credit Corporation

The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is a wholly owned United States government corporation that was created in 1933 to "stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices" (federally chartered by the CCC Charter Act of 1948 (P.L. 80-806)). Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Commodity Credit Corporation are corporations chartered by the United States Congress and new Deal agencies.

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Defense Plant Corporation

The Defense Plant Corporation (DPC), was an American subsidiary of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a government corporation run by the United States federal government between 1940 and 1945. Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Defense Plant Corporation are agencies of the United States government during World War II, corporations chartered by the United States Congress, Defunct agencies of the United States government, Herbert Hoover and United States government-sponsored enterprises.

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Deflation

In economics, deflation is a decrease in the general price level of goods and services.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Deposit account

A deposit account is a bank account maintained by a financial institution in which a customer can deposit and withdraw money.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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Emergency Banking Act of 1933

The Emergency Banking Act (EBA) (the official title of which was the Emergency Banking Relief Act), Public Law 73-1, 48 Stat.

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Emergency Relief and Construction Act

The Emergency Relief and Construction Act (ch. 520,, enacted July 21, 1932), was the United States's first major-relief legislation, enabled under Herbert Hoover and later adopted and expanded by Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his New Deal.

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Emil Schram

Emil Schram (November 23, 1893 – September 18, 1987) was the president of the New York Stock Exchange from 1941 to 1951.

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Eugene Meyer (financier)

Eugene Isaac Meyer (October 31, 1875 – July 17, 1959) was an American banker, businessman, financier, and newspaper publisher.

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Export–Import Bank of the United States

The Export–Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) is the official export credit agency (ECA) of the United States federal government.

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Fannie Mae

The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), commonly known as Fannie Mae, is a United States government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) and, since 1968, a publicly traded company. Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Fannie Mae are United States government-sponsored enterprises.

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is a United States government corporation supplying deposit insurance to depositors in American commercial banks and savings banks. Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are corporations chartered by the United States Congress and new Deal agencies.

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Federal Emergency Management Agency

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No.

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Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States.

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Foreign Economic Administration

In the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Foreign Economic Administration (FEA) was formed on September 25, 1943 to relieve friction between US agencies operating abroad. Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Foreign Economic Administration are agencies of the United States government during World War II and Defunct agencies of the United States government.

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General Services Administration

The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies.

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Glass–Steagall Act of 1932

The first "Glass–Steagall Act" was a law passed by the United States Congress on February 27, 1932, prior to the inclusion of more comprehensive measures in the Banking Act of 1933, which is now more commonly known as the Glass-Steagall Act.

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Great Depression in the United States

In the United States, the Great Depression began with the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and then spread worldwide.

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933.

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Independent agencies of the United States government

In the United States government, independent agencies are agencies that exist outside the federal executive departments (those headed by a Cabinet secretary) and the Executive Office of the President.

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Interbank lending market

The interbank lending market is a market in which banks lend funds to one another for a specified term.

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Jamie Whitten

Jamie Lloyd Whitten (April 18, 1910September 9, 1995) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who represented his native state of Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1941 to 1995.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jesse H. Jones

Jesse Holman Jones (April 5, 1874June 1, 1956) was an American Democratic politician and entrepreneur from Houston, Texas.

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Kirtland Air Force Base

Kirtland Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base.

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Lauchlin Currie

Lauchlin Bernard Currie (8 October 1902 – 23 December 1993) was a Canadian economist best known for being President Franklin Roosevelt's chief economic advisor during World War II.

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Lend-Lease

Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, in Milestone Documents, National Archives of the United States, Washington, D.C., retrieved February 8, 2024; (notes: "Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed 'vital to the defense of the United States.'"; contains photo of the original bill, H.R.

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Lender of last resort

In public finance, a lender of last resort (LOLR) is the institution in a financial system that acts as the provider of liquidity to a financial institution which finds itself unable to obtain sufficient liquidity in the interbank lending market when other facilities or such sources have been exhausted.

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Leo Crowley

Leo Thomas Crowley (August 15, 1889 – April 15, 1972) was a senior administrator for President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the head of the Foreign Economic Administration.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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National Credit Corporation

The National Credit Corporation was an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1931 to stem the tide of bank failures across the US.

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New Deal

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Northwest Airlines

Northwest Airlines Corp. (often abbreviated as NWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1926 until it merged with Delta Air Lines in 2010.

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Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, first and second terms

The first term of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt began on March 4, 1933, when he was inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States, and the second term of his presidency ended on January 20, 1941, with his inauguration to a third term.

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Presidency of Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover's tenure as the 31st president of the United States began on his inauguration on March 4, 1929, and ended on March 4, 1933. Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Presidency of Herbert Hoover are Herbert Hoover.

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Recapitalization

Recapitalization is a type of corporate reorganization involving substantial change in a company's capital structure.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Resolution Trust Corporation

The Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) was a U.S. government-owned asset management company run by Lewis William Seidman and charged with liquidating assets, primarily real estate-related assets such as mortgage loans, that had been assets of savings and loan associations (S&Ls) declared insolvent by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) as a consequence of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.

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Small Business Administration

The United States Small Business Administration (SBA) is an independent agency of the United States government that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses.

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Solvency

Solvency, in finance or business, is the degree to which the current assets of an individual or entity exceed the current liabilities of that individual or entity.

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South Asia

South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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State-owned enterprise

A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity which is established and/or owned by a national or state/provincial government, by an executive order or an act of legislation, in order to earn profit for the government, control monopoly of the private sector over means of production, provide commodities to citizens at a lower price, implement government policies, and/or to deliver products and services to remote locations that otherwise have trouble attracting private vendors.

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Stuart Symington

William Stuart Symington III (June 26, 1901 – December 14, 1988) was an American businessman and Democratic politician from Missouri.

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Synthetic rubber

A synthetic rubber is an artificial elastomer.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II (1941–1947).

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United States Department of the Treasury

The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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War Finance Corporation

The War Finance Corporation was a government corporation in the United States created to give financial support to industries essential for World War I, and to banking institutions that aided such industries. Reconstruction Finance Corporation and war Finance Corporation are corporations chartered by the United States Congress and Defunct agencies of the United States government.

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Warbird

A warbird is any vintage military aircraft now operated by civilian organizations and individuals, or in some instances, by historic arms of military forces, such as the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the RAAF Museum Historic Flight, or the South African Air Force Museum Historic Flight.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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1936 Democratic National Convention

The 1936 Democratic National Convention was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from June 23 to 27, 1936.

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See also

1932 establishments in the United States

1957 disestablishments in the United States

Agencies of the United States government during World War II

Corporations chartered by the United States Congress

Government agencies disestablished in 1957

Government agencies established in 1932

Herbert Hoover

National development banks

New Deal agencies

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_Finance_Corporation

Also known as Metals Reserve Company, Reconstruction Finance Corporation Liquidation Act, War Insurance Corporation.

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