Word: bond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a spiritual bond of brotherhood between two religious groups in the U.S.-Roman Catholics and Jews. This is the contention of Father Thurston N. Davis, editor of the Jesuit weekly America. Catholics and Jews, "immersed in a pervading Protestant culture here in the U.S., have at least some inkling that we share, in divergent yet strangely cognate ways, a common inheritance from the centuries...
...ever befalls his flock. In what Ingle claims to be the first move of its kind in the South, his congregation has approved the building of a new twelve-grade private school to take care of up to 1,000 white pupils. The church has okayed a $300,000 bond issue for the building; the sale of some church property will bring in $200,000 more. White pupils will pay a modest $200 tuition. Dr. Ingle is a longtime enemy of integration, has often addressed the local Ku Klux Klan, of which his brother is a leader. Says Ingle...
...great worry for businessmen was the mounting cost of expansion. Floating a $60 million bond issue last week cost Pacific Gas & Electric Co. more than 5% for a security Wall Streeters said would have gone for 4.8% a fortnight ago. For those unwilling-or unable-to pay top interest, the market was slim indeed. Railroad credit ratings are so low, said Pennsylvania Railroad President James M. Symes, that the roads cannot finance new equipment unless the Government helps; he suggested that the Government create an agency to buy as much as $2.5 billion worth of rolling stock, then lease...
...amidst Kentucky's bluegrass, she learns that her mamma was a Negro, and she is hauled off to be knocked down for $5,000 at a New Orleans slave auction. Her gallant buyer: an aging Rhett Butler, again played by Clark Gable (under the assumed name of Hamish Bond...
Further cementing her bond with the people, Scots-descended Queen Elizabeth scanned the royal phone bill (estimate: $70,000 a year), reached a housewifely conclusion: too high. Her solution: install pay phones in Buckingham Palace...