Word: gi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Treasury must refinance $34 billion in the next twelve months and come to the market each week with $1,000,000,000 or more in bill offerings. Last week the interest rate that it has to pay on short-term (gi-day) bills rose to 3.4%, the highest since the fall of 1957; it may go up to 4%. What the Treasury fears most is that its dependence on short-term financing will force yields on short-term paper above yields on long-term bonds, thus attracting many investors who might ordinarily put their money in long-term securities...
Only a little earlier, the House voted 310-89 for a 300-million-dollar GI home loan bill over protests from Republicans that "budget busters are on the move...
...despite the rise in foundation moneys, Phelps said, fewer students are receiving non-University aid than ten years ago, when a "very large" number of GSAS students were here on the GI Bill. Today very few receive GI aid, he said...
...Twentieth Century galvanized by rare images of the living past. Viewers caught glimpses they had half forgotten or never seen before: newborn Fascist babies squirming wholesale on a nursery table; the bare-chested dictator on a ski slope; his mistress, Claretta Petacci, in a silken boudoir; an anonymous GI mugging in victory from the famous balcony of the Palazzo Venezia...
...Paradise, an ex-GI college student, writer, and all-American Beat Generator, is the narrator of Kerouac's tale. On the Road begins, naturally enough, with Sal on Route 6 outside New York, hitch-hiking to Denver...