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Statement on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

March 25, 1932

THE PRESIDENT said:

"I have the report of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation which shows the following distribution of their activities:

Number of Loans Average per

Institutions Authorized Institution

Banks and trust companies 587 $126, 895, 073 216, 162

Building and loan associations 18 2,917, 000 162,055

Insurance companies 13 5, 765,000 443,461

Railroads 13 46, 975, 557 3, 613,504

Joint stock land banks 2 775,000 287, 500

Mortgage loan companies 3 1,362, 000 454, 000

Livestock credit associations 1 292,084 292,084

Secretary of Agriculture 50,000,000 .......

Total ....................... $234, 981,714

"The banks and trust companies, receiving the loans totaling $126 million, are located in 45 States. The great majority of these loans are to smaller communities. Less than $3,500,000 has been authorized in cities of over 1 million population; more than $116 million has been authorized in towns of under 600,000 population."

Herbert Hoover, Statement on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/208606

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