Word: credited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This limited success does not "imply any general relaxation in monetary policy," the bank announced; inside Britain, the credit squeeze against creeping inflation will continue...
...QUESTION OF CREDIT...
...that bothers retailers is the big rise in savings, which have gone up $7 billion since January 1957. Nevertheless, disposable personal income will still be so high this year (up 2% to $307 billion on Administration estimates) that about the same amount is being spent as last year. Installment credit, rising by $2.5 billion in 1957, has shown no serious falloff. While consumers are cutting back in durable goods, they are not cutting down on food, clothing, or services. With salesmanship, the consumer can even be enticed into buying summer appliances in the dead of winter. Said an executive...
Louisville physician, joins the Gold Rush hoping that some day he will return "laden with the treasures of Golconda, respected, envied by all, denied credit by none." His son Jaimie goes along mainly to escape high school, feeling himself "already educated to the point of absurdity." As they pick up companions along the way, the McPheeters party grows into as fine a concourse of nitwitted adventurers as ever washed a pan in greed. Among those present...
...daydreamers is Raju, an ex-jailbird (minor forgery) who camps on a stone slab near a temple and counts the stars. When a troubled villager says, "I have a problem, sir" and Raju hears him out, the stargazer's career as a swami has begun. Soon he gets credit for every good thing that happens in Malgudi. He repays his followers in doubtful oracular wisdom ("What can a crocodile do to you if your mind is clear and your conscience is untroubled?"). When a drought parches the countryside, Raju inadvertently agrees to fast till the rains come. He caches...