Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact is that FRB's five-month campaign to ease credit has failed so far to cut interest rates appreciably. Though Federal Reserve banks have cut their rediscount rate 1¾%, only a few loan categories such as 90-to-180-day bankers' acceptances and short-and medium-term commercial paper have followed with similar declines...
...travelers will spend some $18 billion to see the U.S. in 1958. From Cape Cod (tourist inquiries up 40%) to California, warm weather vacation business is booming, thanks partly to easy-credit mechanisms. Items...
...Phillips Petroleum Co. announced last week that its credit-card holders around the U.S. may buy as much as $150 worth of gas, oil, tires or auto accessories while on their vacation, and take up to six months to pay for their purchases...
...BLONDE IN BLACK, by Ben Benson (224 pp.; Morrow; $2.95), suggests what too many mystery writers have forgotten: murders sometimes merit sympathy; the police deserve credit for some sense. When Detective Wade Paris investigates a killing at the home of Singer Junie Jacques, he does his job so thoroughly that he winds up with a well-documented story of how a recording star is made. Everything falls into place. The greasy-haired idol of the sloppy-soxers gets into the book for good reason; the sex is there for more than the leers. Even the lunatic brother in the barred...
Tally Forge. In Dallas, Leonard Bennett Burris, in jail for forgery, was made a trusty in the records division, juggled the dates on his own records to show that his term had begun three months before he was sentenced, also gave himself 113 days' credit for good behavior, walked out a free...