Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strongly Recommended." Before his term in Washington, Richie Mack had kicked around Florida all his life, working as an insurance salesman and a credit manager, was secretary and general manager of the Port Everglades Rock Co. at Fort Lauderdale in 1947 when then Governor Millard Caldwell appointed him to the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission. Eight years later, President Eisenhower named him to fill a Democratic vacancy on the Federal Communications Commission. Said Florida's Democratic Senator Spessard Holland at Mack's Senate confirmation hearings: "I may say that he was strongly recommended for this post...
...Ustinov is a sort of Orson Welles rolled into one. He has 13 produced plays to his credit, two of which have reached Broadway (the first: The Love of Four Colonels), has acted in dozens of plays and movies, directed half a dozen more. A brilliant raconteur, ad-libber and dialectician, he speaks French, German. Italian and Spanish (plus devastatingly accurate American of several regions), gives funny, plausible imitations of languages he does not speak, e.g., Russian with a Japanese accent, can make noises like a talking dog. a bugle, a violin, flute, bassoon or harpsichord. He is halfway through...
...statistical support from a survey of Texas schools by a group of ten Texas school superintendents and school-board members. Of the schools giving answers to various questions of the survey, 112 out of 232 allow private music and/or dancing lessons on school time; 188 out of 220 give credit for band time, physical education, chorus, etc.; 166 out of 218 allow athletic teams to eat up school hours with practice sessions. ¶More than half the nation's 23,746 public high schools are too small to do an effective teaching job, a special committee told the American...
...become so strong that the government last week lifted restrictions on pound notes: any amount may be brought into Britain, instead of the previous ?10 limit. Unemployment has risen but is only 1.9% of the labor force, not enough to bring a shift in the government's tight credit policy. ¶Italy's gross national product increased more than 5% last year, is expected to continue to climb; though the industrial production index in January was down seasonally from December, it still topped January 1957. Housing starts were down, but Italian leaders feel that the U.S. will halt...
...competition has forced discount houses to add delivery and credit services, advertise widely, and increase their wares until the old, appliance-cluttered cubbyhole is hardly recognizable. The increased cost has shot down many a fly-by-night discounter. But those who survive are accepted as legitimate businesses with all the rights of established stores-and then some. At first, discounters got only distressed merchandise and off-brand appliances. Today, they are such important customers that many manufacturers rate them higher than department stores. One fast-rising newcomer: the "pricelegger," who out-discounts the discounter by operating from an office filled...