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...bleak Ungava,* the stunted tamarack had turned burnt amber and each morning light snow frosted the tough caribou moss. For the engineers probing the biggest iron ore deposit since Minnesota's Mesabi, it was time to call it a summer. Day after day a little Norseman seaplane dipped down on to Quebec and Labrador lakes, picked up men and supplies, moved them back to the main base at Burnt Creek (pop. 190). This week the twelve drills were operating close by Burnt Creek. Next week they would be silent, and the year's work would...
There was every likelihood that J. Strom Thurmond would be an even smaller deposit of sediment than Harry Truman. As the Dixiecrats' candidate for President, he did not stand a chance in the world. He might capture as many as 50 electoral votes-next to Bull Mooser Theodore Roosevelt's 88 in 1912, the biggest block ever won by a third-party candidate. He was the result of Harry Truman's political courage-or lack of political acumen. His appearance had marked the collapse of the compromises which had held the Democratic Party together for 16 years...
Janitors will sort incoming mail and deposit it in specially-arranged, boxes Watson advised gym tenants to delay delivery of their baggage until they get a permanent room assignment
...some $1.9 billion in additional reserves. It was the second time FRB had used the new anti-inflation powers granted by the special session. (The first was tightening of installment credit, which goes into effect next week.) As banks lend about $6 for every dollar they have on deposit, FRB's order, in effect, cut the lending power of banks about $12 billion...
...create the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 1933, after the worst bank panic the U.S. ever had, the Government put up $289 million. Since then FDIC has become rich from the annual dues (one-twelfth of 1% of total deposits) of its 13,582 members, and piled up a reserve of more than $1 billion. A year ago, FDIC started paying off the Government loan in installments...