Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the "Constituent Meeting," the broad main topic is divided so that each member of the Conference can study a sub-topic in depth. For example, the Conference on inflation in the American economy, this fall touched on "inflation and income distribution," "the national debt in an inflationary environment," and "public intervention in the wage-price process...
...founder of the House of Morgan. Where Morgan was gruff and autocratic, with a fierce glare that could wither a man at 30 paces. Alexander is relaxed, cordial, full of a dry wit. He speaks with a Tennessee drawi. talks about mules as easily as about the national debt. While J. P. Morgan roamed the world in his 302-ft. yacht Corsair, Alexander's yacht is a loft. dinghy moored at his Cape Cod summer home. While Morgan traveled in private railway cars, Alexander gets about in a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon or a Corvette. While Morgan...
...Debt to Society. In Karlstad, Sweden, police discovered that a convict was luring teen-age girls into his cell in the city prison, taking pictures of them which he later sold, had advertised in newspapers for a secretary to handle his booming mail orders...
...moderate Moslem enemies both in Algeria and in metropolitan France. Soldiers like Massu and extremists like Delbecque are reluctant to give up without a victory a war they have waged for more than five years, and, although he has "betrayed" them now, de Gaulle is in this element's debt for putting him in power last...
...when he got a limited credit card issued by the Chase Manhattan Bank. It permitted him to charge up to $300 in New York stores, pay it back at the rate of $25 a month. Last August he overdrew by $73, and the bank put a stop on further debt. Meanwhile, with his Chase card as a recommendation, Miraglia applied to the Diners' Club, American Express and Conrad Hilton's Carte Blanche for good-anywhere credit cards. Diners' and American Express turned him down; Carte Blanche sent him a card...