Word: bond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington, which has no high hopes of SEATO in any case, did not know how to react to this latest evidence of fraying in the U.S.-British bond...
Photographer Wendlinger raced to the scene, arrived at the same time as the police. While other photographers stood by, Wendlinger hollered out, "I'm the guy you talked to on the phone." When he heard that, says Photographer Wendlinger, "it seemed to be a kind of bond with somebody and he yelled down to have that guy sent up to talk to him." Wendlinger climbed up onto the 225-ft.-high bridge cable where the would-be suicide perched precariously...
...exchange for sovereignty, Indonesian leaders agreed to place their country in a Netherlands-Indonesian Union, an arrangement which had the appearance of a common bond but was not one in fact. Last week even this tenuous tie was broken. In The Hague, Dutch and Indonesian delegates signed a protocol to end the political union. The Dutch took satisfaction in the fact that the economic links were left intact: they still have a billion-dollar investment in Indonesia...
...SAVINGS BONDS are selling at the fastest clip since the great bond drives of World War II. In the first seven months of 1954, the Treasury sold $2.9 billion in E and H bonds, v. comparable sales of $2.6 billion in 1953, $6.5 billion...
...giving its approval, British Columbia laid down some stiff conditions for Lindsley. He must put up a $2,500,000 bond, which will be forfeited if he fails to meet any one of the annual development targets between 1955 and 1962. Furthermore. in the case of such failure. Lindsley will lose his license to the water rights, as well as the full value of work done up to that time. Unlike an earlier deal worked out with Aluminum Co. of Canada for its Kitimat project (see THE HEMISPHERE), Lindsley's agreement calls for no tax concessions, no special rates...