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...tenths of a per cent in September, its first drop in seven months. But analysts did not see the slight drop as an omen of a turnback toward recession. The stock market was rattled by President Ford's decision not to aid financially pressed New York City; the Dow Jones industrial index slumped to 836.04, down 4.48 for the week. At week's end First National City Bank lowered its prime rate from 7¾% to 71/2%, the lowest since August 7. Citibank's cut signified that cheaper money would soon be available to fuel the recovery...
...swept off my feet by this vortex," he said. "My whole practice is going out the win dow, and the case is beyond my control...
Outside the money markets, these might seem less than earthshaking events. But the prospect of steady interest rates already is heartening. On the stock market, which is hurt by rising interest rates, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 10.70 last week, to a close of 823.91. In the bond market, a $200 million offering of 33-year debentures by Michigan Bell Telephone sold briskly at a 9.6% interest rate, a smidgen below the 9.7% rate on a Bell System issue on Sept. 17. Rates at auctions of three-month Treasury bills, a bellwether of the market for short-term money...
...only two per cent of state and corporate money has been given to social sciences, apparently in the belief that studying different political and social systems might make future technical workers too critical to heed thoughtlessly commands to maximize kill densities for Honeywell's latest "anti-personnel" weapon or Dow Chemical's napalm account...
...Forrestal Center will include in addition to sites for industrial plants and office buildings 1600 housing units, a 400-room hotel and convention center, and a small neighborhood shopping center, Hire said. Current tenants of the center include the R.W. Johnson Foundation, RCA Corporation, Mobil Oil Corporation and the Dow Jones Corporation...