Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest Wall Street dealers in Government bonds hit back with some plain talk about speculation and Government bond policies. The U.S. Treasury, said Aubrey G. Lanston, president of Aubrey G. Lanston Inc., not only encouraged speculators to come into the market by tailoring its offerings to attract them, but would have been unable to sell $26.5 billion of recent middle and long-term securities without "a good dose of speculation...
...theory behind the big Treasury refunding launched last January, said Lanston,"was that it should be set up to appeal to the rife speculation existing throughout the country that interest rates were bound to move lower." To attract speculators and investors, the Treasury issued a 3½% longterm bond at par when the market yield on Government bonds was only 3^%. "This was equivalent to undercutting the market price by five whole points. Surely, the speculators weren't supposed to stand idly...
Since veteran coach Bert Haines retired in 1952, the HAA has been able to attract competent graduate coaches for the lightweights when necessary. Volunteer Dick Lincoln '53 was quick to point out that under graduate coaching Harvard developed the champion lightweight crew that went to Henley last year...
...Shanghai. She left her native city with her husband nine years ago to escape the Communist regime. Mrs. Chen explains that she decided last June to open a restaurant, "Because I like to cook and to give our northern Chinese friends a place to eat." And the restaurant does attract many Chinese, as well as a good proportion of the faculty and students engaged in Oriental studies at the University. Mrs. Chen should corner the market of Mandarin food-lovers in the whole Metropolitan Boston area. Indeed, all of Massachusetts, or all of New England, for it is the only...
...attract an able coach, the H.A.A. should make the lightweight position both permanent and full-time, and easily could render this change financially consistent by using the coach during the mornings in a departmental administrative position...