Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parting Guests. In Wichita, Kans., after being robbed by two bandits ol $1,500 and forced to carry a stolen bag of' groceries to their car, Grocer Dale Steen was forced at gunpoint to borrow a customer's car, push the getaway car a quarter of a mile to get it started...
...brought into action. Not only did $2 billion in unemployment-insurance payments help fill the gap in wages, but there was a step-up of $700 million in Social Security payments. The Federal Reserve Board eased credit by cutting bank-reserve requirements and the discount rate at which banks borrow from the Federal Reserve. The Administration also wisely abandoned, at least temporarily, its determination to balance the budget, prepared to accept a $4.7 billion deficit in the current fiscal year. With its new housing law, which cut down-payment requirements and liberalized Government mortgage insurance, the Government gave a fillip...
...Although the Russians affect to despise Disney, his cartoons are still shown behind the Iron Curtain. Until a few years ago, the Disney organization disclosed, the Russian embassy in Washington would politely ask if they could borrow a Disney print for an embassy showing. The print was then put in a diplomatic pouch, rushed to the airport, flown to Czechoslovakia, copied, flown back to Washington-all in about 72 hours. It was then handed back to Disney, with thanks...
...obscure and unintelligible to almost everyone else as nuclear physics. Yet the Government's fiscal policy directly affects more people than almost anything else the Government does. By increasing or decreasing the supply of money, the Government indirectly determines such things as 1) how much a person can borrow, 2) whether he can get a mortgage on his house and how much it will cost him, and 3) whether he will get or keep a job. Last week a joint committee of Congress held the first full-scale hearing on the Administration's fiscal policy...
...years has been phenomenal. His last two one-man shows practically sold out (at $500 to $2,000 per painting), and he is now represented in eight important museums. To open an exhibition of Thon's latest paintings this week, Manhattan's Midtown Galleries had to borrow back twelve pictures it had already sold...