BANKING: Easy Money

Reserve requirements of U.S. banks will probably be eased before fall.

Federal Reserve officials let the word leak out this week. One effect, desired by the Treasury, is to make it easier for the war industries to borrow. Second effect will be to keep money cheap for the government itself, the largest borrower in the world.

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