Word: credited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Heathcoat Amory, juggling the controls to open up the economy last week gave British banks power to grant more credit without Treasury approval...
Harold J. Kennedy and Albert Penn have provided sure-handed direction on a suitably run-down set by Stuart Whyte. And someone deserves a program credit for Miss Bartley's outlandish costumes...
...turn of the century, three scientists (Hugo De Vries in The Netherlands, Karl Correns in Germany, and Erich Tschermak in Austria) independently rediscovered Mendel's principles. They also rediscovered his long-forgotten paper, and gave him full credit; the basic principles of genetics are still known as Mendel's laws. Genetics, born at last to science's estate, went to work on the interwoven mysteries of life and heredity...
...modern America's 'money world' Mr. Parson clings to the lower rungs of the economic ladder. He is often dependent on gratuities and tips to make ends meet. Either through necessity or through too casual adoption of alien moral norms, he has become a poor credit risk; the family is deeply in debt. Mrs. Parson? She's on the nine-to-five shift, earning money to keep the children in nursery school so she can earn more to salt away for their college education-or their clothes...
Renegotiation's bitterest enemies are the planemakers, whose defense-produced net income is rarely more than 3% of sales. Nevertheless, during fiscal 1957, the Board ruled they had made $33.6 million in excessive profits. Boeing has been ordered to give back $27.5 million (less tax credit), and lesser amounts are demanded from North American, Douglas, Lockheed and most of the others. The planemakers maintain that the Renegotiation Act is unconstitutional because it levies what amounts to a tax without a rate-and thus deprives the taxpayer of due process. The law provides no formula to measure excess profits. Instead...