Which of the following statements about the Penn Central Railroad crisis is NOT true?
A) The crisis resulted in a large decline in commercial paper lending.
B) The crisis was ended by the Fed making credit available to commercial banks.
C) During the crisis, banks made loans to companies that would normally have used the commercial paper market.
D) The Fed's charter greatly restricted the number of banks to which it could make loans.
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