Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since V-J day, the American public has gone into debt more rapidly than in any period in our history," the Federal Reserve Board Bulletin reported last week...
...Salts. The biggest part of the debt ($32 billion) is in home mortgages. The rest has been run up by U.S. citizens in acquiring the goods and services which they consider essential to their health and happiness-automobiles, clothes, refrigerators, washing machines, television sets. The trend which the FRB Bulletin noted most anxiously was the increase in installment buying, which is up some $2.3 billion over last year, to a total...
...Said the Bulletin: "The increase in installment credit this year is of special significance because it is taking place notwithstanding the fact that the output of consumers' durable goods is no longer growing. Further expansion [of installment credit] . . . can only add more purchasing power to the already swollen spending stream and reinforce inflationary pressures...
...days, the headlines had chanted that the count was 3 & 2. Yet on the night when death finally came to Babe Ruth, New Yorkers found the news hard to believe. Newspaper switchboards lit up within minutes after the radio bulletin, and were jammed for hours. At Memorial Hospital five extra operators were put on, to repeat over & over that Ruth had died...
...Quiet days, no important events." This horoscope for Zurich, published by the weekly tourist bulletin, was only half right. The days were quiet enough for the 350 stargazers of the International Astronomers' Union, who met last week for the first time since 1938. But after eight days, some of their conclusions had become important mileposts in man's continuing search to find out more about his universe...