Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alexander believes there may be more jiggling of rates when holiday financing steps up and the steel strike ends. But, he says hopefully, "there is a good likelihood that the worst pressure on rates is past. A sustained strong upward force is unlikely." He does not think that tight money will harm the boom: "The supply of money and credit is not exhausted. The banking system is heavily loaned, but not loaned up." He is not concerned about high money rates, points out that for long periods short-term rates wrere actually above long-term yields. Says...
...tricks as pulling a string of five coal carts up an incline, or tugging along a 4½-ton truck. Top challenger Willi Lehner, 36, a 230-lb. stonemason from Unterpeissen-berg, was fond of hanging suspended by his finger from the claw of a derrick. Dressed in their holiday leather knickers and green felt hats, the wrestlers wound their legs around steel stools (wooden chairs would snap like toothpicks), and at the umpire's command "Auf!" tried to pull their opponent's hand across a line drawn a foot from the center of the oak table. During...
Time fof Chop-Chop. A million candles etch the initials P. and C. against the night sky of Cincinnatus' home town. On the ride to the scaffold, bouquets of flowers pelt P.'s and C.'s open car. The whole vulgar holiday is surrounded by rules and rituals of elaborate illogic. Finally, the moment nears "to do chop-chop," as M'sieur Pierre puts it childishly; and childishly, too, the prisoner seeks to save his last shred of self-respect as he mutters: "By myself, by myself." Author Nabokov saves a climactic surprise for the chopping...
Hawaiian Eye (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Newest of the private peepers are a couple of uninsular operators named Tracy Steele and Tom Lopaka. Their very first caper, Malihini Holiday, traces a murder plot all the way from London to Waikiki...
...editor and publisher of Confidential Hy Steirman, said that the story was written under a pseudonym. "The Holiday Club," he explained, "is not a club like the Porcellian Club, but rather the name for a sort of clique." Confidential's information on the Holiday Club stops about a year to a year and a half ago," Steirman added...