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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jenkintown, Pa. CENTERS 56 Colyer, John H. '62 19 6:1 180 Oneonta, N.Y. 57 Eckfeldt, Richard H. '61 20 6:1 195 Paoli, Pa. 59 Kirn, Walter N. '60 21 6:1 195 Akron, Ohio 52 Sullivan, Jeremiah M. '61 20 6:0 211 Old Orchard Beach, Me. 54 Szvetecz, Frank C. '60 21 6:0 204 Bethlehem, Pa. 53 Van Dervoort, R.L. Jr. '62 19 6:0 198 Lincoln, Neb. BACKS 29 Carlin, Philip E. '62 18 5:11 197 Columbus, Ohio 23 Cullen, Jay R. '60 21 5:10 184 Frankfort, Ky. 17 Goldman, Ronald...
Through the palm-decked lobbies of Miami Beach's best hotels this week strolled 6,000 men who know the value of money. For the delegates to the annual convention of the American Bankers Association, the subject came as natural as breathing. Among them there was a strong note of worry. Reason: money has become so tight that the situation has raised grave questions for the bankers-and for the U.S. How much higher will interest rates go? How long will the pinch last? Will money become so tight that it will"choke off the boom...
...Miami Beach there were opinions to fit every account. Said Louis E. Corrington Jr., president of Chicago's Southmoor Bank & Trust Co.: "Right now, money is the tightest I have ever seen it. It will be worse after the steel strike is over and companies start building inventories and go to the banks to borrow." Said Russell H. Eichman, vice president of Cleveland's Central National Bank: "If the steel strike requires a slowing up of auto sales, that in itself will automatically ease the tight money situation." Said Scott L. Moore, president of the American National Bank...
...eventually earned about $250,000 from his writing. He consolidated the family properties, made good cloth, built the Springs Cotton Mills into the nation's third biggest textile maker. He made his mills represent the ultimate in good employee relations (swimming pools for the 13,000 workers, a beach resort, free junkets), his product the most racily advertised in the staid textile world. His most famed ad, captioned by himself and duly noted by the U.S. Post Office: a smiling Indian squaw rocking a tired brave in a bedsheet hammock, with the legend, "A buck well spent...
...Country wars, and invade England. But, astoundingly, no provision had been made for getting the army aboard the Armada's vessels. The Duke of Parma had no deep-water port, and Spain's fighting ships could not get within miles of Dunkirk's beach. Parma had only a few rotting barges to bridge the distance. But as things turned out, the Duke never had his chance to drown because the Armada, intercepted by the British, never got near Dunkirk. This monumental snafu is typical of one of history's most inept naval campaigns...