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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even after the steel strike ends, industry will face a host of other problems. Companies that have exhausted their inventories will have to wait for new stock before they can resume production, even then will need several days to get their plants humming again. Moving ore to steel plants is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Deep Bite | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

In 1955, said Saulnier, a too rapid expansion of credit caused overbuying of autos and other consumer durables, helped bring on the recession of 1957. If consumer installment purchasing increases too rapidly now and after the steel strike, Saulnier fears U.S. consumers will overreach themselves, bring on a decline.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Credit Caution? | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

For an option seller to avoid big losses, Filer cites two rules: 1) never sell a call option unless you own the stock, since you may have to buy it at a higher price if the call is exercised; and 2) never sell a put option unless you have the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Put, Call & Win | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Since 1950, Machines Bull has had a contract to sell in the U.S. under the trade name of Remington Rand. But sales never amounted to more than $3,000,000 a year. The company believes it can readily market $40 million worth of its computers and other equipment under its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Bull Market | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Squalling Grammarians. Traditional translations make much of Homer's epithets (Hera is "white-armed"; Odysseus generally "crafty"). Graves uses them sparingly, and sometimes ironically. The gods are treated with something less than respect; Zeus is a blowhard who hardly ever means what he says, and Hera, his wife, might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Olympian Satire | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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