Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never Knows. For years, department-store credit managers, income-tax investigators and the parents of the girl engaged to the young man upstairs have come regularly to La Pipelette for information about her tenants. They are answered in direct ratio to the generosity of the tips Madame has received at rent-collecting time, at New Year's and for special services. Even the Paris police call on her for information. During the war the Resistance used the concierge as a perfectly positioned spy. Allied airmen shot down over France were passed safely across Paris from one concierge to another...
...chorus must first be praised for its sincerity. More substantial representatives of the British race I never saw, enlightened men all who will see that justice is done. The Defendant, Dan McCook, is a horrid fellow, a real dandy, and the Jury again deserves credit for reading their newspapers rather than listening to his fine voice. The poor, dear Angelina of Joan Dexter is positively radiant in spite of the beastly treatment she has undergone. And though his law's a fudge, justice is competently and wisely apportioned by Judge Arthur Shercliff. So impressed, in fact, was the public with...
...influenced both selections for this year. "Amphitryon 38" was played up in the advance publicity as being very sexy, etc., and consequently must have disappointed some patrons. This spring, the HDC took a very daring step it brought in a Hollywood actor and a press agent with a limitless credit account. The amount of money spent on "The Man Who Came to Dinner," is rumored to be up in the 5-digits, but the Club apparently is going to be able to meet its old debts from the profits. If the HDC can begin its new production next fall with...
Catching up with the "moderate recession," the Federal Government thought it time to ease more anti-inflation controls. The Department of Commerce lifted export controls from 500 items, including many foods and appliances which had become surplus. The Federal Reserve Board, for the fourth time in three months, eased credit restrictions. It reduced bank reserve requirements 1% and 2%, depending on the size of the bank-thus freeing about $1.2 billion extra cash for lending. But FRB's move was not likely to boost the volume of loans: businessmen had carefully cut their borrowing by $1.5 billion...
...allow qualified Juniors to study abroad is a welcome one. Although limited to men in the field of Romance and Germanic Languages and Literatures and to Comparative Philology concentrators specializing in Romance or Germanic languages, it represents the first post-war step toward solving the complex question of allowing credit toward a Harvard degree for work done outside of the College...