Word: aaas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AAA may mean the American Automobile Association to millions of Americans, but to cities, states and corporations in search of money it is a supreme symbol of solvency, the highest accolade Wall Street can bestow. Armed with that much-sought but carefully dispensed rating, a borrower can attract more investors, get by with paying lower interest rates on loans, and generally profit by the blue-chip aura that prime rating bestows in the business world...
...that "no man in the White House has ever moved faster" than Johnson. In the hectic beginning days of the New Deal, F.D.R. announced the Good Neighbor Policy, called the bank holiday, passed the Federal Emergency Relief Act, took the U.S. off the gold standard, and started the CCC, AAA, TVA, HOLC, FDIC, FCA, NRA and WPA. And all that in 100 days, not five months. Johnson is a whirlwind, but Roosevelt was a cyclone...
...Campagne-Premiere in Paris. Masters though they were, they had things to learn from the Englishman who founded Atelier 17 and still presides over it at another address: Stanley William Hayter. superb technician of the graphic arts and greatest innovator of modern etching. Last week in Manhattan, the AAA Gallery was showing Atelier 17 prints by Hayter and other artists, and a retrospective show of Atelier 17 work was touring the U.S. under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts...
...preserve the federal solvency, to cut federal expenses 15% across the board. That was the way to do things, and I was all for Roosevelt on things like that. But then this fellow Keynes got hold of him." Soon Byrd was leading the Senate opposition to the AAA, TVA, NRA-and when Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court, Byrd knew that his dissent was total...
Driving conditions, however, will remain poor today and tonight. The AAA reported that outside the Metropolitan Boston Area, freezing rains and drizzle will make driving hazardous. Major roads out of Boston are plowed, but slippery...