Word: enoughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college-board exams, marriage or the draft. Not all educators are happy about it. Some feel that schools are beginning to compete for the honor of producing winners, that teachers are teaching for the tests. This controversy is likely to grow, an ironic contrast to recent (cries that not enough of the nation's promising students" are getting to college...
...question. But there is another hour to fill-plenty of time to solve the race problem too. So meanwhile, back at the cold-water flat, the Negro maid (Juanita Moore) is having trouble with her light-skinned daughter, who is yearning for the day when she will be old enough to leave home and pass herself off as white. The day comes, the girl goes, and the scriptwriters settle down to the point of the picture: an interminable scene in which the poor old Negro maid dies of a broken heart. Excerpts...
...Treasury this week will auction off $3.5 billion in such notes to see what the buyers will pay. Then it will set the rate on a $1.8 billion short-term issue. Anderson tried no long-term bond, simply because the Treasury can not get an interest rate high enough (i.e., above 4¼% ) to sell it. Publicly, the Treasury is keeping a stiff lip. Privately, it trembles...
Raise the Rate? The one factor that would help Anderson most would be a balanced 1960 federal budget, eliminating new borrowing. But with Treasury facing the need to refinance old debts, many now wonder if even a balanced budget, which seems improbable anyway, is enough...
There is a growing feeling at Treasury and at the Federal Reserve Board that the 4¼% limit will have to be raised by Congress, even though economists and businessmen worry that raising the rate would cause a general rise in long-term rates and tighten money enough to choke off gains in business. Finding a solution to the Treasury's problems cannot wait much longer. In July the Treasury will have to borrow additional billions. A sudden sharp contraction in the stock market might conceivably cause a shift back into bonds, but nobody regards that as a real...