Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furthermore, the 5% bonds loosened the pressure on the short-term market. The discount rate on the three-month bills offering dropped noticeably (4.194% to 4.007%) before a new issue at week's end was offered at a record high 4.262%. Treasury officials, however, called the jump temporary, expect that the rate will decline again this week...
...spurring Wall Street's biggest complaints. Said Robert L. Winkler, partner of Bernard Winkler & Co.: "By the time the SEC gets around to approving a registration, market conditions have changed and issues often cannot be floated." In the year ended last June 30, the SEC approved an alltime high of 1,226 securities-registration statements, a 34% increase over the previous year. In many cases the time needed for an O.K. was 28 days after filing, eight days more than the law provides for. In September approval time dragged out to 45 days...
...from Manhattan's Lower East Side, showed what can happen when the assumption happens to be dead wrong. With a credit card and rubber checks cashed on the basis of credit-card identification, Miraglia told police he ran up $10,000 in hotel and travel bills and general high living in the U.S., Canada and Cuba in less than a month. Said Miraglia: "I always wanted to see the world, and I like nice things...
...High Pressure. Meteorologists have a more prosaic explanation. There have been almost twice as many hours of sunshine this year in France as in normal years, apparently because of a high-pressure area in the Canary Islands that pushed the normal summer storms southward. Thus the northern vineyards enjoyed a season of incomparable warmth, free of the violent hailstorms that slash the vines and bruise the grapes. At the same time there has been enough moisture in the ground to keep the vines fresh. "The leaves are still green as we pick," says one grower. "This means a glycerine content...
While the belly laughs are few, the chuckles are frequent in The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, and as its redoubtable hero might put it, "by Keplen. high-tone crititzizink is a vaste time. Tsplit infinitifs, I got; wrong tanses, like-vise; dobble nagetifs, also. Hau Kay? Enjoy...