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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heavy construction was running at a rate 60% above the 1954 mark and 3% above 1953. In Washington Housing Administrator Albert Cole told a House subcommittee that 1,300,000 housing units would probably be built this year, just a shade fewer than the 1950 record...
...outset." said he, "let me emphasize that no one knows whether stocks are too high today." because the market's rise or fall depends on such unpredictables as economic conditions, politics, international affairs, emotions-even the weather. "Largely because of the crash of 1929, the impression has built up that the stock market is the cause of booms and busts. Actually, it is the thermometer-not the fever." The Sound-Money Man. Gently, Baruch exposed the shallow depth of the Fulbright investigation by detailing aspects of the market that deserved (but did not get) serious study, e.g., the growth...
...learning to class cotton in Memphis' Front Street sample rooms. Classified 4-F because of a back deformity, he joined the F. M. Crump cotton company and worked there through World War II. At war's end, while others talked recession, Butler bought cotton gins. He built a stake, put it in the cotton market; in one day he reportedly made $1.000,000 speculating in cotton futures. He moved into soybeans, coffee and other commodities, and by last year had $11million...
...buildings, clad in aluminum and tinted glass, will have 1,283 apartments, offer such luxury features as airconditioning, soundproof walls, double-oven kitchen ranges, and valet service. Rentals will range from $100 (for one room, dressing room, kitchenette and bath) to $700 (for a twelve-room apartment). To be built in 18 months, the glass cities will cost an estimated $25 million, partially financed by an $11 million, 20-year Equitable Life Assurance Society mortgage, a record loan for apartment construction in Chicago...
Author Compton-Burnett has used the same revealing piece of wood off and on for 20 years, sometimes broken in a desk, sometimes built into a locked drawer-though once, admittedly, it was widened and made into a bridge over a ravine: the result was nearly neck-breaking. The nearest equivalent to this slice of timber is the distaff which the Greeks put in the hands of the Fates-and man's fate, in the Greek sense, is in fact the essential clue to the mystery of Author Compton-Burnett's long (15) line of novels...