Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tennis playing on Soldiers Field will be restricted to holders of bursar's cards stamped with a "D," indicating a locker in Dillon Field House and to those who hold Faculty participation tickets...
Dragging Dollars. The financial side of the supersonic is dragging even more. To give it some lift, President Johnson has appointed a seven-man board of directors, including former World Bank President Eugene Black and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, to advise him. The Government originally planned to put up 75% of the supersonic's estimated $1 billion development cost, but Black has recommended a costlier 90 to 10 split with the manufacturers...
Crystals on Demand. As the pulling and hauling dragged on day after day, Treasury officials finally decided to call a halt. A mere 3,000,000 silver dollars were left in the vaults (out of 28 million on Jan. 1), and Secretary Douglas Dillon let it be known that the Treasury would take its time about deciding what to do with the cartwheels that remained. Possible alternatives: melt them down, auction them off to dealers and collectors, put price tags on them and sell them over the counter, or put the whole thing up to Congress...
What then of the pledge inscribed on some 95% of all U.S. dollar bills: This certifies that there is on deposit in the Treasury of the United States of America one dollar in silver payable to the bearer on demand? From now on, said Dillon, silver certificates will be redeemed at the U.S. Assay Offices in New York City or San Francisco with envelopes containing exactly 0.77 of a "fine troy" ounce of silver crystals, worth a dollar at the official monetary rate for silver: $1.29 per oz. Collectors will be hard put to trade up their value -they will...
...drama of score-the breakaway touchdown, the grand-slam homer-that makes the excitement. In basketball, the scoringest sport in the land, it is the nerve-burning electricity of the highpoint game. The 1963-64 season saw shooting that would have been the envy of Marshal Dillon: an average of 148.8 points per game, two-team total, for 3,890 major college games-a full 9.8 points higher than just a year...