Word: filles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Bob Magowan and John McGinley, numbers six and nine, improved greatly since the season started, Wynn thinks. He characterized Magowan as a "touch player," while McGinley relies on power. George Leness and Joel Reynolds, both winners in the Dartmouth match, fill the other two positions...
...went after their share of the trade by ingenious bartering agreements signed with eleven countries. No hard and fast commitment, each bilateral trade agreement simply budgets an equal two-way trade for a year, usually with an arrangement for "swing" credit if either of the contracting nations fails to fill its quota. Bartering is a step away from free trade, which German Minister of Economy Ludwig Erhard ardently urges. But he goes along with it because, by skirting present currency shortages and exchange difficulties, it works...
...with professional wistfulness on the crime wave after the war when London had 20,000 military deserters living at the end of their guns. Although London's underworld has quieted down considerably since then, Webb has still uncovered more than enough material to satisfy The People and to fill three books (The Verdict Is Mine, Crime Is My Business and Deadline for Crime...
Somehow she also finds time to fill up the fortnightly Enid Blyton Magazine (circ. almost 300,000). She replies in writing to 3.000 fan letters a week, deals with 25 British and 40 foreign publishers, supervises four children's social clubs (365,000 members), one of which supports a convalescent home for children under five. Her well-known surgeon husband runs five different Enid Blyton companies, collects royalties from such products as Noddy chocolates, Noddy nighties...
...Tools at Work. As the jobless totals rose, other fiscal tools were brought into action. Not only did $2 billion in unemployment-insurance payments help fill the gap in wages, but there was a step-up of $700 million in Social Security payments. The Federal Reserve Board eased credit by cutting bank-reserve requirements and the discount rate at which banks borrow from the Federal Reserve. The Administration also wisely abandoned, at least temporarily, its determination to balance the budget, prepared to accept a $4.7 billion deficit in the current fiscal year. With its new housing law, which cut down...