Word: halfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told, 108,000 individuals and organizations bought nearly half of the $2 billion issue. Only 26.6% went to commercial banks; thus Treasury officials were highly pleased that most of the issue was kept out of the commercial banking system, which pays for Government securities with newly created dollars. The Government increases the nation's purchasing power when spending these dollars, thus adds to inflationary pressures...
SOME stockholders grumble that Barr has spent so much on expansion that earnings have suffered (they dropped below 1957 in 1958). But Barr argues that money spent now will bring benefits in higher profits later. The rise has started. Earnings in the first half this year jumped to $10.6 million from $8.6 million last year. In the next five years, Barr plans to spend $500 million on expansion. By 1963 he expects sales to be running at $1.8 or $2 billion a year...
...when he decided that men are, so to speak, either florists or deflorists. His bent was clear, and when his mother enrolled him in a seminary, he was quickly expelled. The second volume of the Putnam edition (the first was issued last spring, and four more will appear at half-year intervals) takes up the rake's progress when he is 23. Casanova has joined a runaway beauty named Henriette, set her up in a lavish apartment in Parma. In three months, he remarks mildly, "the only pleasure we took out of doors was a drive outside...
Left fullback Ekkehard Boellert was the big man in the Columbia defense. Physically prepossessing at 6 ft., 6 in. and 250 Ibs., the slow-moving Boellert seemed always to be in the right place, thanks to a kind of blind instinct. And his kicks regularly covered half the length of the field...
...games this year, the Crimson picked up an early lead in the first half, and then came out in the second lethargically daring the opposition to catch up. Columbia capitalized on the second half hangover with two scores, whittling the Crimson lead to six points...