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...governors kept rapidly increasing the supply of money during the first part of 1966. Businessmen, eager to expand their overworked plants, hired more employees and built inventories, went on a borrowing spree and were willing to pay a premium price for money. Loans to business - which usually flatten out during the first half - actually jumped by $7.5 billion, or almost...
...itself. There, according to Marine intelligence, a third North Vietnamese division-the 304th-is preparing to move south. U.S. planes pounded the DMZ again last week, and ranged north into North Viet Nam's Panhandle to blast the Yen Xa railway and highway bridge and flatten a dozen antiaircraft sites. One Navy Phantom was hit by a chunk of shrapnel that slashed through the ejection seat, grazed the pilot's helmet, then ripped out through the canopy. The pilot made it safely back to his carrier. Strike pilots operating near
...Works. By relating itself more closely to the actual price of stocks, the Big Board's new index is frankly intended to flatten out, at least on paper, the market's daily changes (see chart). Exchange computers record all transactions-as many as 250,000 on a busy day-in all of the 1,254 common stocks listed. These are translated not into a point index but are given in dollars and cents, and a fresh quotation is turned out every half-hour...
...noise for the first few blocks or miles of a ride-and auto dealers can have a difficult time convincing customers that the thump comes not from the car but the tire. The noise is an embarrassing result of nylon's tendency to "flat spot," that is, to flatten slightly when the car stands still for a while. Lately, the chemical manufacturers have devised nylons that almost eliminate flat spotting. Du Pont has begun marketing its N-44 nylon cord, Chemstrand has come up with X-88, Allied Chemical with...
...became a protege of goateed General Nguyen Khanh, who promoted Air Commodore Ky to the Anglicized altitude of air vice-marshal. In return, Ky twice scrambled his Skyraiders over Saigon to stave off coup attempts against Khanh's 'government-once even resorting to the cold threat to flatten Saigon with bombs if the rebels refused to cease and desist. Ky probably would not have carried out the threat, but the plotters could never be sure. They ceased and desisted...