Word: chipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best Sells Better. What sells best all over the world are the finest pieces in top condition. "It's easier to sell what I'd call a blue chip in antiques even at a high price than a cheaper, less satisfactory one," says Samuels. Almost every item in the current French & Co. exhibition is worth 20% to 50% more than it cost at purchase; some have appreciated four and five times their cost...
Most of these people are involved in a robbery, with Bogart as the kingpin. The robbery succeeds, but once again crime does not turn out to be a blue-chip enterprise...
...city of Brockton, Massachusetts, is not one of Boston's Blue-Chip suburbs. This is due partly to the fact that Brockton is not a suburb of Boston at all, but partly also to the fact that Brockton is distinctly non-Blue-chip in nature...
Each year approximately 100 students from below the line of Mason and Dixon enter the Harvard freshman class. They arrive in Cambridge as eager and awed as any. Some, of course, arrive with a chip on their shoulder and with a few choice words concerning Little Rock. These few have ample--indeed, abundant--opportunity to express their defense of segregation, Faubus, and States Rights, for they will find roommates equally eager to argue...
...Richmond and St. Louis Federal Reserve Banks permission to up the discount rate from 1¼% to 2%, continuing the upward move initiated by the San Francisco Reserve Bank (TIME, Aug. 25). The earlier rises brought no change in the prime rate (i.e., the interest charged customers with blue-chip credit), which is set by New York banks that make 20% of bank loans to business. But as soon as the New York Federal Reserve Bank raised its discount rate, New York banks increased the interest on prime loans from 31% to 4%. Other banks around the country promptly boosted...