Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad principles on which his effort is based. "Our use of passive resistance in Montgomery," he says, "is not based on resistance to get rights for ourselves, but to achieve friendship with the men who are denying us our rights, and change them through friendship and a bond of Christian understanding before God." Impossible? Maybe...
Good Partnership. When President Eisenhower took office, "the wholesome concept of good neighbors" prevailed in inter-American relations. But "we foresaw a bond stronger than any yet achieved here or in any other community of world states." As a result, Eisenhower "called for a thorough study of the entire field of inter-American relations, the first integral examination ever made of our relations in the hemisphere. The man who did this job was the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, who submitted an exhaustive report in November 1953. Dr. Eisenhower's recommendations on hemisphere partnership became and still...
...been possible just a month ago. The market for other Treasury issues has also showed a big improvement lately. The rate on 90-day Treasury bills, most sensitive of all money barometers, slipped from a peak of 3.3% in mid-December to 3.1% last week, while medium-term taxable bonds dropped to 3.35% from their 3.52% peak set in early January. The overall bond market reflected the different tone; the interest rate on prime Aaa-grade corporate bonds dipped from 3.82% to 3.22% by the end of January...
Bottom & Peak. As bond prices dropped, the big mystery was: Why did investors fail to take advantage of the bargains? Yields on the Dow-Jones average of 40 bonds rose to 4.30%, close to the yield of 4.53% on the blue-chip stocks. Yet until last week the shift toward bonds was remarkably slow, apparently because many investors were waiting for bond prices to drop even further...
...market finally rallied, say bond men, because investors decided that the bond market has reached bottom and the credit pinch its peak. Many bond dealers believe that the tight-money policy, by forcing marginal borrowers out of the market, is now increasing the supply of available investment capital. Others think that the present rally is seasonal, but that credit will ease later in the year; thus nudging bond prices higher as other interest rates slip. In any case, to customers who had been waiting for the best time to buy brokers were saying...