With a "meager" $566,000,000 Treasury balance disappearing at the rate of $30,000,000 a day, Secretary Morgenthau spent 45 minutes talking with President Roosevelt at the White House. Next day, to U. S. investors the Government offered $1,000,000,000 in short term securities: $500,000,000 of 2½%. Treasury Notes maturing in 13½ months, $500,000,000 of 1½% Certificates maturing in 7½ months. It was the biggest piece of new financing ever attempted by the Treasury in time of peace, but it represented only one sixth of the new money which the Treasury expects to borrow before June 30.
Mindful of last autumn's fiasco...
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