Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as three-fifths read Time and call themselves "moderate liberals," about two-thirds believe that America's two-party system is "satisfactory on the whole and should be essentially retained." In contrast, only one-fifth (extremists of both Right and Left) favor an alteration of the present party structure...
The exhibit locates the ninth House, along with a still more indefinite tenth, on University-owned property along the Charles beyond Dunster House. Still further down the river, it is speculated, there will be a cooperative apartment house, open like any other apartment to the public, but possibly financed and...
Worried that the new boom would sweep in more inflation, the Federal Reserve Board last week took an expected step. It approved a hike in the discount rate on loans to commercial banks from 3% to 3½% for five member banks: New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Dallas...
The ICC ducked perhaps the hottest issue involved in the railroads' financial difficulties: union featherbedding. After reporting that conductors, brakemen, engineers, firemen, et al. in 1958 worked on the average only 57% of the hours for which they were paid, against 64% in 1947, the commission lamely concluded that...
Yankee Invasion. U.S. investments in Old World stocks have soared since the recent currency liberalization made it easier to repatriate profits in dollars. Heavy U.S. buying in May provided the punch that lifted such stocks as the Anglo-Dutch Unilever from $143 to $153, The Netherlands' Philips' Lamps...