Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sell some of her $591,107 worth of jewels so they could pay debts and taxes. Among the baubles: the fabled Hope Diamond, once spoken of in terms of millions, now appraised at $176,920. Last week's new figures also indicated that the McLeans bought it on credit in 1912 for $100,000 ($20,000 down, $1,000 a month...
Sounds Impractical. Last week, a Carnegie Hall audience got to hear just how much further tall, slender Composer Mennin had advanced. In picking his symphonic form, he had tried something that even Beethoven had never attempted until he was past 50 and had eight great symphonies to his credit. Mennin's Fourth, "The Cycle," was an ambitious choral symphony in which he worked out the chorus in all three movements instead of just the last (as Beethoven did in his Ninth). Said Mennin: "I know a piece that takes so many performers is impractical, but I wanted to write...
...extremely chromatic harmony, which in Strauss' tone poems often becomes banal and boring, hardly ever ceased to be interesting during Thursday's "Salome." Credit for this, belongs largely to Conductor Reiner. His interpretation was characterized by careful restraint, with the result that the final climaxes were completely overpowering...
Many of the blueprints were plainly drawn from U.S. models. Thus, the commission suggested a form of Federal Reserve System to control credit. It counseled that the Brazilian practice of "seeking high profits from a limited market" should be supplanted by a business philosophy of mass production at favorable cost...
...Hoover Commission also recommended that the Treasury get control of three credit agencies, now independent: the Reconstruction Finance Corp., the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Export-Import Bank. To coordinate the 30 other U.S. lending agencies, and to advise the President on money matters, it suggested the setting up of a National Monetary and Credit Council...