Word: borrowings
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...violence at New York City's Coney Island, and a prison eruption in Baltimore. Deaths, mostly of old people, were up 40% in New York, 50% in Atlanta and in St. Louis, where 146 fatalities were directly attributed to the weather. The St. Louis city morgue had to borrow stretchers when it received eight to ten times as many bodies as normal. "Deaths will hit several hundred before this is over," predicted Dr. W. W. Billings, coroner of suburban Madison County. "It's like a plague...
...American's thirst for novelty means, of course, that he also continues to borrow from abroad. The U.S. is a melting pot not only for races but for ideas as well, and many of the American customs and habits that travel abroad have already been influenced at home by other cultures. From the King James Bible to Scandinavian modern furniture to LSD, some of the best and worst of culture in the U.S. has been imported. With the rise of U.S. power and affluence, much American music, cinema, art, design, ballet and theater have begun to meet and marry...
...ordered so many jets that even his fabulously profitable Hughes Tool Co. could not meet the bill. While he still could have done so, Hughes brushed off proposals that he give up a small part of his 78% ownership of TWA to raise money. In the end, forced to borrow $165 million or face receivership, he had to surrender operating control of TWA to the Metropolitan and Equitable life-insurance companies and a group of 15 banks. Hughes placed his stock in a ten-year voting trust controlled by the lenders, who named former Ford Motor Chairman Ernest Breech...
...this confronted the Bank of England with a delicate dilemma: Should the bank recommend an increase in Britain's discount rate from 6% to 7%, or perhaps more? Such a move would reduce the sterling drain, but it would make it harder for British businessmen to borrow money, and thus unsettle the economy more. The decision is largely up to Leslie K. O'Brien, who took office last week as the bank's 114th governor...
...Keyes's books are not really worth reading, why do so many people read them? The answer, to borrow yet another gem from the author's bottomless thesaurus, is not far to seek. Mrs. Keyes's disciples are predominantly women who prefer to take their history with heavy doses of high romance. The Keyes have...