Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best of Jim Gavin. After a hard-eyed assessment of a U.S. Army that could be stopped by the "primitive" Red Chinese in Korea, he makes a passionate demand for the money and decisions to provide the West with an atom-armed and airmobile fighting force that can hold down Communist threats, big and little, by being ready to fight anywhere in the world at any moment...
...movement began in 1872 with Charles Taze Russell, a small, intense-looking Pittsburgh merchant who joined the Congregational Church but disliked thinking of hell as fiery and eternal. "Would you hold a puppy dog's tail in the fire three minutes?" he asked. Neither would a just God, was his argument. To "turn the hose on hell," Russell went back to the Bible and found the words: "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake" (Daniel...
...Copper, now being produced at 950,000 tons annually, has an excess capacity of about 350,000 tons; moreover, producers hold high inventories of refined copper. Government guarantees for 120,000 tons have a ceiling price of 28? per lb., which will probably act as a barrier to any major price rise...
...course in opposing loud congressional demands, and some by businessmen, for heavy tax cuts and a vast program of Government spending. According to C.E.D.'s graphs, neither course would necessarily have accelerated the recovery. Despite 1954's tax cut, personal income took 14 months to regain and hold lost ground. This time personal income is almost back to pre-recession levels in ten months, without any reduction in taxes. At the start of the 1949 recession, Government spending was sharply increased, yet employment showed no improvement for eight months. Without such help this time, the strong upturn came...
OLDER U.S. WHISKY will finally get a crack at luxury markets, long dominated by Scotch (and some Canadian brands), if all goes well. Senate Finance Committee voted 9-2 to allow domestic distillers to hold whisky in tax-free storage up to 20 years (current limit: eight years), and full Congress is expected to approve. Biggest gainer will be Schenley Industries, which holds by far largest stock of whisky older than six years...