Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which would be the biggest in the nation's history. Under the bill, much of the program would be financed by increasing the taxes against highway users, e.g., the federal gasoline tax would go up to 3? from the present 2?. The Administration (although it still prefers a bond issue) has, through Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, already approved the principle of increasing the user taxes. The Senate is still working on a highway program that would be paid for by outright federal appropriations...
...Street. One broker even predicted that the Dow-Jones industrials would hit 1,000. But some brokers lifted warning fingers. Stock prices have been going up so high and so fast that dividend rates have not been keeping pace. Traditionally, brokers start to worry when yields of stocks and bonds get close. They fear that many investors, discouraged by comparatively low stock yields will start shifting from stocks to safer bonds, possibly touching off a major decline in stock prices. Last week yields on industrial stocks were averaging 3.53%, down almost a third of a point in two weeks, while...
...After graduating from Tulane in 1927, Sargent went to Mississippi Power & Light as an engineer, stayed on to become vice president and general manager, then moved over in 1946 to Arizona Public Service where he has been serving as president. His new company, Foreign Power, a subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share, does not operate in the U.S. but provides eleven Latin American countries with their utilities...
...Saints . . . To me Roman Catholicism seemed one of two things: either a set of dry philosophical formulae or else a range of plaster-cast statues . . . What I wanted was no vision of the intellect, but resurrection. It was the doctrine of bodily resurrection which held me by an unbreakable bond to the Christian religion, as it had held St. Paul...
...Meade Falkner's classic adventure story of British smugglers, and just as the novel itself was reminiscent of Robert Louis Stevenson, so the movie faithfully echoes other good movies: the graveyard encounter between boy and convict in Great Expectations is almost exactly reproduced, while the affectionate bond between a rogue and youngster that illumined both Kidnapped and Treasure Island is duplicated in Moonfleet by Rapscallion Stewart Granger and Orphan Jon Whiteley...