Word: bond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SAVINGS BOND BOOST in interest to 3¼% from 3% was signed into law by President Eisenhower. To spur sagging sales, law will make $18.75 bonds worth $25 in eight years, eleven months after purchase instead of current nine years, eight months. Rate applies to Series E bonds, also Series H bonds that have a face value of $500 or more...
...Better 'Ole. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Gordon Davis, jailed on a drunkenness charge, was released on $50 bond posted by his wife, who began giving him such a tongue-lashing that three minutes after leaving he slunk back in, begged, ''Give her back her money, I'd rather stay in jail," was locked up for the night...
...bond moratorium is just one aspect of a large-scale economic re-evaluation Khruschev is leading. He also suggests decentralization of industrial administration to increase consumption. Although the Kremlin has moved toward restoring the Stalinist foreign affairs technique, economic affairs are moving in new directions...
Though best known for such flamboyant experiments as Marcel Duchamp's famed Nude Descending a Staircase, the hit of Manhattan's 1913 Armory Show, all three brothers started out dead serious about their art, and it was art that became their common bond. Recalls Marcel: "We had always in our head the famous adage, 'stupid as a painter.' We tried to introduce some brains into the problem...
...makes it fall into fragments that cannot kill any kind of germ. To use the customary chemical methods on penicillin, says Dr. Sheehan, "would be like attempting to repair a fine watch with a blacksmith's sledge and anvil." The critical problem was to find a way to bond a carbon atom and a nitrogen atom to form a chemical ring in the heart of the molecule. Avoiding many standard reagents as too violent, and keeping his solutions at room temperature or lower, Dr. Sheehan finally found a reagent that would...