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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe's Drumbeats and Song production of Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town netted betwen $2,500 and $3,000 Nina C. Rolnick '59, chairman of the Grant-in Aid fund, announced yesterday...
Adlai E. Stevenson told a Boston Democratic fund-raising dinner ($25 a plate) that the President "speaks for all of us" in refusing to be forced out of Berlin. But calling upon his party "to make good the perilous deficiencies of the executive branch," Stevenson suggested that the West can afford to negotiate toward disengagement in Central Europe. "We must face the fact that no Russian withdrawal can be secured without a modification of the Western position," he said. "In order to take, we will have to give...
...rate of 5% a year." Average yearly rate since the 1870s: 3%. In their swelling stack of pamphlets, proponents of 5%-a-year growth do not argue the realism of their goal in hard economic terms. As authority for it, they point out that last spring a Rockefeller Brothers Fund panel, sprinkled with big businessmen, urged a 5% growth rate...
...economic chaos that has soaked up $129 million in U.S. grants in six years without results went on. A year ago the International Monetary Fund told Siles that it would end its support if he did not close government-subsidized tin-mine commissaries where the coddled, politically powerful miners were buying meat, rice and other staples at less than cost-a typical rat hole for foreign funds. A few weeks ago the U.S., which sends Bolivia a bail-out allowance of $500,000 every fortnight, backed up the I.M.F. by demanding an end to commissary subsidies. Thus pressured, Siles announced...
...loans now than they did at the end of the last recession in early 1955 (largely because of a tremendous two-year growth in loans), the demand for loans has dropped off. With capital spending down and profits edging up, many industries have built up a good cash fund, do not need loans...