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...providing an office, auditing and legal services, a legal address outside College rooms, and risk capital, the new institution will enable students with selling and promotion ideas to expand them greatly. A student with a good idea will be able to borrow up to $5,000 to start a new business if he can convince the Agency's directors that it would be profitable and proper to set him up selling typewriters or toe-nail clippers. Within the rather vague limits of propriety, the opportunities for future hucksters seem boundless...
...Iduna-Germania Insurance Co., who had boosted his company from 16th to third place in postwar Germany. Krupp met Beitz through a mutual friend, studied him carefully for months before finally asking him to become Krupp's general director. Said Beitz: "I thought the Krupps were trying to borrow some money from my company, and he was too shy to mention...
...founded the first self-conscious U.S. regional group, the Hudson River School). Ever since, artists have made it a habit to pack up canvas and paints, take off for a working summer vacation. In the current paint-for-paint's-sake decade, artists continue to take the bus, borrow a car or hitchhike to the summer Bohemias, where they crowd the bars and grow summer beards...
...stealing." Evidently it was just beginning to occur to some studios that television versions of forthcoming movies might not be altogether harmful. Warner, preparing a film biography of Helen Morgan, tried fiercely to keep The Helen Morgan Story off Playhouse 90, but admitted quietly last week that it will borrow the title for the film...
...some thought, reflect business pessimism; it showed confidence in the future. Early this year, with exaggerated recession talk rampant, there was a tendency for investors to get out of the stock market and seek the security of bonds and their guaranteed return. This made money easier to borrow, helped check the rise in interest rates. But the return of confidence and the recovery in the stock market checked the shift; even though the Dow-Jones index of the yields on top bonds was about 4.40% v. 4.50% for the blue chips, many investors no longer cared. They were interested less...