Word: immed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Midwest, says Vice President Keith Cone of Chicago's La Salle National Bank, "the rise in delinquencies and repossessions was just not alarming at all." By prodding the creditor to be more cautious in his lending and thus weeding out many a weak credit risk, the recession actually im proved collections in some places. Sanger Bros. Department Store in Dallas and one of San Francisco's biggest department stores reported that collections were better during the recession than before it. Said Emil J. Seliga, president of Chicago's Talman Federal Savings and Loan Association: "The line...
...Alec's Lavender Hill Mob, an' with not much 'elp neither, financially so to speak, and they're sayin' 'e's brilliant, 'e's got it made. A ruddy, stained-glass genius, that's what they called 'im. 'E's no genius, 'e's a bloody miracle worker. 'E's taken the evacuation at Dunkirk-their finest hour, like the aowl' boy said, an' the greatest military operation in the 'aowl' bloomin' 'istory of military warfare...
...dying, the other hands sit around and beat their gums about this and that, as if nothing at all unusual were going on. "I think he's dead," one of them says at last. "Dig it deep," Boss Ford replies, "so's the kyoats doan git 'im." And at the graveside he says unemotionally, "He was a good man with cattle. Allus did the best he knew how." And they throw on the dirt...
...room to operate the foot pedals. In some cases I was unable to see a safe distance through the contorted windshields. True enough, my 6 ft. 6 in. height is a contributing factor, but a comparatively short man of 6 ft. reported the same trouble. After seeing this show, Im wondering how many more years I'll have to drive my 1951 sedan...
...bans cameras from courtrooms. "I was home ill that day," recalled Colorado Supreme Court Justice O. Otto Moore. "I happened to be listening to the radio and heard Hugh Terry come on the air objecting to the ban. It was a radio editorial, the first I had ever heard." Im pressed, Justice Moore joined KLZ in the fight for a hearing before his fellow justices. As a result, Colorado's Supreme Court was the first in the U.S. to sanction radio and television coverage of court trials...