Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinct advantages. Not only does it offer an opportunity to save money on board expenses, but it allows for a way of college living that differs markedly from the more confining restrictions of the Quad dormitories. And, face it, it gives girls some rather valuable experience in running a household...
...reach a reconciliation with her husband (TIME, Sept. 3). Juliana, it was said, had not only agreed to see no more of Greet Hofmans, the faith healer whose influence had driven a wedge -between the Queen and Prince Bernhard, but planned to eliminate Hofmans supporters from the royal household...
...when did a Queen of the House of Orange have to promise anything to her confidential advisers? Far from breaking with her confidante Greet Hofmans, the Queen stubbornly continued to seek out and see the faith healer and all of her group. The only change made in the royal household was a minor one planned before the "three wise men" were called in for help. Meanwhile, the nation itself was in the midst of a Cabinet crisis whose solution was made virtually impossible because of the worsening situation in the palace...
...shared presses, quarters and business departments with Stauffer's own Topeka afternoon paper, the State Journal (circ. 23,471). Also in the package: another daily, the Kansas City Kansan (circ. 29,583), six farm periodicals, two national magazines, Capper's Farmer (circ. 1,462,513) and Household (circ. 2,578,797), plus Topeka's radio and TV station WIBW and Kansas City's radio station KCKN...
...loan duration: two years) but also because few customers resist high interest rates (top effective rate* at New York banks: 11.7%). The installment buyer is usually not concerned with interest rates; all he wants to know is the size of his monthly payment and whether he can carry it. Household Finance Corp., whose 757 offices shoveled out $771 million in installment loans last year, borrows funds at 3.7% to 5%, lends them at an effective rate of 24%. But few balk. Explains H.F.C. President H. E. MacDonald: "When a man comes to us for a loan, he comes...