Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STEMPEL: May I say a few things before we continue? I'll admit I nipped, [but] even riding down in the taxicab, I said to myself just now, I says, ahhh, Dan gave me a damn good break . . . and I came off with $50,000 . . . Unfortunately, I piddled it away through my own stupidity, and my wife's influence, etc. And also the whole thing. Let me tell you the whole thing in gist...
Jampacked in Oslo's Bislett Stadium, 33,000 track fans one night last week howled for Australian Runner Herb Elliott to break his own world's record for 1,500 meters. Elliott was obviously out to please, but he finished 1.4 sec. off the record of 3:36 that he set last month in Göteborg, Sweden. "The going was hard and good, and I have no complaints," he gasped later, "except that I may be a little tired...
...fumbles by the Treasury or the surprisingly quick turnabout in the economy, the Treasury is being bitterly blamed. Said Armand Erpf of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.: "I suppose the loss of several billions of dollars in bond values is the price we have to pay to break in a new-Secretary of the Treasury...
...Anderson have to find their way out of the debris of the bond break. Within the next month, the Treasury must raise $3.5 billion in new money, the first of a series of huge financing operations over the next ten months by which Anderson must raise new cash, and refinance some $46 billion in maturing securities. With private investors scared out of the bond market, the Treasury is counting heavily on commercial banks to buy its future issues. Since the banks can turn right around and borrow from the FRB on the bonds, this will also add to the credit...
...Actress Naaz somehow sums up the whole history of her sex, chattering happily as she works with her brother, huddling against him for warmth, patting his arm in a crisis and reassuring him, "I'll manage it somehow." Raj Kapoor trains his camera on them almost without a break, and they have rewarded him by endowing his film with the gentle luster of a miniature masterpiece...