Word: bond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building up on the road back. Items: ¶ Sales in 44 chain stores and mail-order houses in April reversed an eight-month slide, pushed 4.4% higher than a year ago. ¶The stock market hit another new high; Dow-Jones industrials rose 1.20, to 322.50. ¶The bond market was booming. Connecticut's first $100 million bond issue for its $398 million toll expressway was snapped up by 250 investment bankers. The Treasury Department offered $2.2 billion in 4¼-year notes, got so many orders that it had to turn down $7.5 billion...
...they were men. As Gheerbrant came to know them, he noted in their skeletal figures and leprous faces "gentle curves, tender gestures, naive curiosity and strange wishes and desires," and realized that despite the thousands of years that separated him from them they were linked by the common bond of humanity...
...strings of its tight-money policy, last week let them out a little more. In announcing two new security issues to raise $2 billion in new money and refund $7.2 billion of maturing securities, it set the lowest interest rates in several years. And instead of a longer-term bond issue, the Treasury resorted to shorter-term notes for fear of siphoning off long-term investment money needed by industry as well as state and local governments. The issues:
...exchange plans), however. In the case of one European student, officials asked a routine question: why was he coming to the United States. The Student maintains he replied: "to study" but the immigration officials took him to say: "to stay." As a result, the student had to post $500 bond against remaining here...
...after studying here, the student was offered a teaching post in a leading University, and to accept it, he now must readjust to immigrant status, so he can remain. By re-adjusting under section 245, however, he would be "violating" the contract of his bond, and would thus forfeit the $500. If he returns to Europe and reapplies, he would keep his bond, but would run the risk of not getting back in time for the next academic year, and thus lose his University appointment...