Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing that had the consumer pinching himself-and proved the real surprise of the recession-was the change in philosophy among creditors. In the '305, a man who fell a month or two behind in payments lost what he had bought on time. But banks, finance companies and stores now realize that what is good for the consumer is also good for them. To avoid repossessions they go out of their way to rearrange terms, give the borrower a better break. Chicago's Talman Savings and Loan announced in June that people who had had loans...
...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...
Tanguy and his mother spent 18 months in a concentration camp in South France before she arranged to escape via a kind of underground railway. "Please, please don't leave me behind, Mama," begged Tanguy, and as he watched her go, he felt that "an iron hand was squeezing him inside" and that he would die of misery. ("He had not yet learned that no one ever dies of misery.") The plan was for Tanguy to follow his mother a few days later, on his ninth birthday, but the Nazis closed the escape hatch...
...LONG NIGHT, by Julian Mayfield (156 pp.; Vanguard; $3.50), puts a ten-year-old Negro boy through a Harlem wringer during one long night and shows him at dawn emotionally dry behind the ears. The kid's name is Frederick Brown, but he prefers to be called by his gang name: Steely. He is a 2nd lieutenant in the Junior Comanche Raiders, reads Superman comics and numbers Jackie Robinson among his heroes...
...year-old blond giant, at the wheel of a Ferrari, had to come from behind in the second half of the 402.906 kilometer race to edge Moss by a single point for the throne abdicated by Argentina's famed Juan Manuel Fangio...