Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British method, if brought off quickly, might have had more effect than many men of good will would care to admit. But in the end it encountered overriding objections, and the U.S. gained credit throughout the world for separating itself last week from the conduct of its oldest allies. For as a sovereign remedy, the peace of imposed power takes little account of the cries of the less strong, or the pleas of peoples aspiring to freedom...
Small businessmen, who find it hard to raise stock market capital, also complain that they are being hit hardest by the credit pinch. Bankers dispute this, point out that business loans of under $100,000 are running 14% ahead of last year. The Small Business Administration in the first six months of 1956 approved more than $165 million in loans to small businessmen, twice the volume for first-half...
...they are rising fast enough to satisfy the demand for money. Other sources of investment funds are also falling behind, e.g., life insurance companies expect to increase their new assets by only $6 billion in 1956. As things stand, says New York University Economist Raymond Rodgers, rapidly expanding mortgage credit alone will sop up virtually all new savings accounts this year, plus two-thirds of all the new funds accumulated by life insurance companies...
...tries to say something serious about the relation -and the lack of it-between private morals and public life. Before the picture ever reached the screen it was accused of malpracticing what it preaches. Scriptwriter Michael Wilson, who cinemadapted the 1945 bestseller by Jessamyn West, was denied a screen credit for his work because he pleaded the Fifth Amendment in 1951 in refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The studio, a small outfit, was of no mind to risk its principal ($3,200,000) for principle. Be that as it may, Wilson...
Today's enormous consumption of raw materials will lead to shortages and high prices of metals and oil, and easy credit terms and technological developments creating greatly increased demands for consumer goods, he said...