Word: grant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local school board gathered in the high-ceilinged city council chamber, one member stood up to offer a prayer: "We beseech thee, O Lord, cast thy shadow before us on this night of decision. We pray for those who will disagree. Enter into their minds and hearts, grant them enlarged understanding." A few minutes later came the board's announcement: acting in concert, school boards in Greensboro (pop. 87,100), Winston-Salem (115,800) and Charlotte (158,800) had approved "on their own merits" certain Negro applications (total: 12 out of 51) for transfer this fall to all-white...
...ease the blow, the War Office set up a special fund totaling nearly $140 million for severance payments, terminal grants and pensions. Examples: a colonel retired at 45 after 24 years' service can receive as much as $16,800 in severance pay, a terminal grant of $7,728, and a pension of $2,576 yearly. A sergeant retired after 17 years will receive $3,500 severance pay, a terminal grant of $630, a pension of $384 yearly...
...seven to nine years. British, Italian and West German suppliers responded coolly, though some West Germans are ready to offer goods on a deferred-payment plan-at 8.5% interest. Russia and Eastern European satellites, on the other hand, have been quick to inform India that they are eager to grant deferred payments-and at only 2.5% interest, a political price which U.S. observers feel is significant (though direct Russian-Indian trade is at present only 3.2% of India's overall foreign trade...
...sure how CAB will rule on the 6% fare hike. One possibility is that it might grant a temporary increase pending the outcome of the long-range General Passenger Fare Investigation, which it is now conducting independent of the 6% request. Whatever happens, most airlines consider a 6% boost only an emergency lift. For the long haul they argue that at least a 10% increase is necessary to preserve the air fleet which the nation's security and economic well-being demands. The alternatives, say the airmen, are two: either the weakest airlines will fold and the middling ones...
...Affair to Remember (20th Century-Fox) drags Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr over as bumpy a road to love as Hollywood has ever contrived. Deborah is an elegantly kept (by Richard Denning) lady with a Park Avenue lust nest; Cary is a charm-laden bachelor on the verge of merging with America's heiress with the mostest (Neva Patterson). From the moment they meet on a transatlantic liner, this cynical, money-grabbing pair feel an overwhelming compulsion to give up their comfortable arrangements for a tumble into each other's arms...