Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...superman with the wistfulness of a god who wishes to experience the mortal man's sensual delights and difficulties. Gardner Tillson's mischievous Mercury is marred by awkwardness and profuseness of gestures. Jane Hanle was generally apathetic as Alkmena but conveyed Alkmena's conquetry and supicious insight. She deserves credit for stepping into her role on one day's notice. Paul Fithian's fatuous Amphitryon, Henry Franck's priggish Trumpeter, Ellen Whitman's inappropriately uncosmopolitan Queen Leda contribute to the carnival of characters who romp through the play. Giraudoux's classico-modern play is typical of many twentieth century French...
...astute Murai's maneuvering, the seemingly respectable Nippon Institute was now Communist-controlled. Last week, confronted with the facts, Murai confessed that the party, hard pressed for funds after General MacArthur drove it underground in 1950, had decided to set up a string of phony companies on credit, sell goods quickly for all the. cash they could get, and funnel the money into the party chest. Their first move in what they called "Operation Truck Corps" was to get control of the Nippon Institute, chiefly through Murai. Then they set up a network of trading firms, all using...
...Darling Downs district of Queensland, the parched farmers clamored for Bowen's rainmakers. He sent airplanes reluctantly, knowing he could promise added rain over a period of months-not cloudbursts on order. Even when seeded clouds obligingly dropped heavy rain on several large areas, Bowen refused to claim credit. Nevertheless he smiles a little when he hears of his growing reputation among grateful farmers. "There's no doubt," he says, "that we are starting to push nature around...
...even more important, since it would benefit not only the feeders but the whole U.S. airline industry. By freeing $67 million in capital gains earned from selling old planes over the next five years, A.T.A. President Tipton testified, the bill would give the industry a $270 million credit reserve toward new planes. Even that is only a start. To keep pace with the growth of air travel, U.S. airlines must spend at least $2.5 billion for new equipment in the next few years...
While U.S. firms with high credit ratings can still make short-term loans at 4%, British businessmen must pay 51%. In Germany, Japan, France, Brazil and Greece, interest rates run anywhere from 7% to 12%. For smaller companies, the effective rate often is much higher, reaching 25% or more annually. Even at such rates, demand so far outstrips supply that companies are hard-pressed for expansion capital, are turning increasingly to profits to get the funds they need. In Britain, West Germany and Belgium, some businessmen are plowing up to 60% of all profits back into their firms...