Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Each of five "halls"--one for women, four for men--has its own dining room, sports facilities, social activities, and student government, and inter-hall competition is keen on many fronts. As at Lowell House, the hall dining rooms feature high tables--small but significant reminders of a larger debt owed by both Harvard and UCI to the British university tradition...
...responsible for Philco's comeback is President James M. Skinner Jr., 43, who took over in 1956 when the company was racked by management troubles. He streamlined operations, brought in new executive brains, paid off the $25.9 million debt, and strengthened Philco's position in the laundry field by buying out Bendix. Skinner is convinced that Philco will come close to last year's sales despite its first five bad months. Says he: "We are in a pleasant position. We believe this trend will continue into...
...running on both tickets and, particularly in the wake of Democrat Orval Faubus' antics, could conceivably switch 30,000 Harlem votes to the Republicans. A final special advantage: many a New York bloc, e.g., Negroes, plus liberals, art lovers, medical men and the churches, recognize a longstanding debt to the Rockefeller philanthropies, may be moved to pay it at the polls...
...bond market as older U.S. securities slid to bring their yields more in line with the new rates. Hopefully, the Treasury expects the market to stabilize before it is forced to raise more cash in two months. Secretary Anderson is under no illusions that his job of financing the debt will be easy. Last week, in a speech to the American Bankers Association, he pointed out a new problem he has to contend with...
...Mary Roberts studied to be a nurse, then married Surgeon Stanley Rinehart in 1896, bore three sons before she was 27. She wrote The Circular Staircase, first of her warmly human, quietly humorous mysteries, after a stock-market panic in 1903 threw the Rinehart family $12,000 in debt. When Staircase sold (1,250,000 copies so far), she went on writing, reached her popular peak in the era of her serialized (Sateve-post) sentimental adventures of a spinster named "Tish," still sternly kept regular office hours in her 70s. Mrs. Rinehart once shrewdly appraised her own honorable journeyman status...