Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complicate matters, New Jersey has had a Republican-controlled legislature under a Democratic governor for the past four years, thus allowing each side to claim credit for the "good" things done, while blaming the opposition...
...Millionaire Vincent Astor temporarily halted excavation for his $60 million, 46-story Astor Plaza skyscraper on Park Avenue because he cannot find necessary additional financing at 5½ % interest rates. Mortgage lenders say several other buildings among 29 currently planned for city could also be held up by scarce credit...
...Government's biggest defense contractor, with a $2.1 billion backlog of orders. Boeing faces the deferment of more than $350 million in payments due for the rest of fiscal 1958. If the Air Force sticks to its new schedule, and the company cannot expand its $100 million bank credit, Boeing will be forced into a major production slowdown, says senior Vice President Wellwood E. Beall. Boeing is already closing its 1500-worker plant at Everett, Wash.; it has chopped employee overtime, temporarily abandoned a new preflight hangar at Moses Lake, Wash., reduced its shop supply inventory, and cancelled...
Republic & Lockheed. Outside of Douglas, which is in better shape than most because of a $150 million credit that can be transferred from its DC-8 commercial jet program, the rest of the major contractors are in bad shape. Republic, facing a 30% to 40% cut in payments for the rest of the fiscal year, blames the new payment schedule for a layoff of nearly 2,500 workers. Lockheed is also cutting back. So are the Martin Co., North American and other major contractors. The picture is even darker for the thousands of subcontractors who sometimes do as much...
...reached Harvester's normal retirement age of 65 this week. Reserved and meticulous, Frank Jenks started with International Harvester as a clerk in Richmond in 1914, won a vice-presidency for his work bolstering time-payment sales to farmers as manager of Harvester's credit bureau, was named executive vice president when President Moulder took over. Jenks, who is also slated to succeed Chairman and Chief Executive John McCaffrey, now past retirement age, faces the task of shoring up International Harvester, whose net income dropped $3,000,000 to $31,347,000 in the first nine months...