Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least as important as federal credit curbs in holding down demand for housing is the fact that the wages of bricklayers, carpenters, et al. ($2-$5 an hour) have far outrun their productivity, pushing the prices of houses far out of line. To keep housing prices from getting further out of line is clearly to the interest of the building trades. That is what Richard Gray was trying to say, and it was precisely what needed saying...
...report was finished two days before the first Sputnik went up, the conclusions that he reached remain valid. Some of his premises: "The Soviets will almost certainly have a strategic ballistic missile in this period." "The Soviets have announced intentions of launching an earth satellite in 1957. Western scientists credit them with this capability...
INSTALLMENT BUYERS are giving the bill collectors a tough time, especially in areas hit by defense layoffs. More than 40% of the lenders who report to American Bankers Association complain that credit delinquencies are rising, and better than 30% of the reporting areas are experiencing an unusual increase in automobile repossessions...
Roosevelt boosters have given him more journalistic credit than he deserves. One has said that the CRIMSON was "dull reading until Franklin came along. He gave it a shot of modern journalism that raised its circulation--and the blood pressure of the faculty." And another has exclaimed: "The astounded college awoke. Gossip carried the news of the revived CRIMSON throughout the student body and town. Men who had never read the paper took fresh interest. Well! ...Hm! ...Well! Well!... So the dead have arisen! ...Say, that's an apt bit, and this is a scathing comment...
...found Bill McCurdy and Ed Stowell, varsity track coaches, in the exercise room atop Dillon Field House. They were in the midst of a long and arduous series of calisthentics that would have done credit to the most fit of their undergraduate charges...