Word: chores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Main Chore...
Containing this passing potential will be the Crimson's main chore this afternoon, but it will also have to be on the lookout for Skypeck running off the option and for the powerful rushes of 190-pound Phil Taylor, one of Cornell's leading ground-gainers last fall...
...making voodoo, the spectacular, cymbal-scored shot of steel being poured or an oil well gushing, the concluding tide of coronation music as the sponsoring firm is identified -are familiar to every schoolboy who has slumped, bored but gratefully relaxed, through a reel or two of respite from the chore of learning. High school science teachers have tolerated these technological travelogues presumably because they are "visual aids to education," and the phrase sounds up-to-date; college science profs have ignored them almost completely...
...Recovery? The man with the most reason to be concerned about all this is Treasury Secretary Robert Bernerd Anderson. He must raise up to $12 billion in new financing this year to cover expected budget deficits, and also has to refinance $46 billion in maturing securities. This formidable financing chore comes at a time when yields on recent U.S. bonds are sharply rising. If Anderson raises the coupon rate on forthcoming issues to match the competition from older bonds, he will tend to raise all interest rates. Such a course might well nip the general business recovery. At the same...
...replace him, the board of directors tapped the company's West Coast boss, Frederick W. Ackerman, 63, one of the lifelong busmen who had been passed over in favor of Genet in 1955. Ackerman knows that his toughest chore will be to put Greyhound Rent-A-Car on the road. "It has been a headache because of mistakes," says he. "We tried to do too much in too short a period without experience and competent...