Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring Joan Braverman '50, ex-president of Radcliffe Student Government, estimated that 50 cents of each student's dues to the Government would be taken to pay the Signature debt. As this debt was incurred during two years, the cost per year per person must be about 25 cents after revenue from advertising is deducted...
...good novelist's knack of suggesting more than he says and keeping his story moving with an air of inevitability. He is one young writer who owes a lot to Ernest Hemingway, but won't have far to go before he's out of debt...
...time fixed charges (e.g., interest on the $257 billion national debt) were included and President Truman's new $4 billion for European military aid and $11.6 billion for additional arms were added, the U.S. budget would be in the neighborhood of $57 billion for this year...
...long way from the depression days of 1935, when a syndicate headed by Manhattan's Lehman Bros, investment banking firm bought it lock, stock and whistle for a skimpy $1,500,000. Incoming Executive Vice President John Elliot Slater found the line loaded to the gunwales with mortgage debt, saw that one of its main assets was its European freight representative, John Francis Gehan. Bustling, ebullient "Jiggs" Gehan, known as "a man who does business with a handshake instead of a contract," found cargo for American Export ships in so many South European, African and Near Eastern ports that...
...critics were less spontaneous: they wrote columns about "influences" they thought they saw in Grandma Moses' 50 oils (which owe their greatest debt to the prints of Currier & Ives). One critic spoke of Renoir and the "early moderns"; a second of Flemish miniatures and Bruegel's landscapes. Anyway, said another, "there's something [in Grandma Moses] for everyone to enjoy, whatever their approach...