Word: interested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this project. Somebody still has to figure how to pull students out of DP camps, how to get them across the ocean, how to support them in this country. But the State Department has told an NSA official that it likes the idea, and if NSA can now interest colleges in a feasible project, the DP plan may somehow, someday succeed...
Drop the Peg. Until recently there has been little complaint about pegging of Government bonds. Bondholders liked the guaranteed market. But as commercial interest rates edged upwards (Reynolds Tobacco Co. had to promise 4½% last week on a $26 million issue of preferred stock, compared to 3.6% on an issue in mid-1945), big bondholders, notably insurance companies, began to unload on FRB. They could put their money in better paying private issues or out to loan. Had the unloading reached such a point that FRB should stop supporting the market...
...life-insurance companies have any right to expect a guaranteed buyer." Parkinson thought that FRB should let the bonds find their own level in a free market. His argument was that lower bond prices meant higher yields, and higher yields on Treasuries would in turn push up the commercial interest rate. Making credit more expensive, thought Parkinson, would help nip inflation...
Last week the Justice Department proposed that Hollywood's Big Five-Paramount, Loew's Inc. (M-G-M), RKO, Warner Bros., and 20th Century-Fox -be ordered to 1) sell their interest in theater chains they partially control (about 1,400 movie houses) within a year, and 2) submit plans on how they expect to get rid of some of their remaining (about 1,600) theaters within the next five. And each time they buy a new theater they would have to get court approval...
...novel that Orville Windom's grandchildren find in his strongbox after his death is not a very good novel. In fact, a reader not sharing their family interest might be tempted to say that it is the worst novel he has ever read. It is, however, the sort of novel a distinguished Supreme Court Justice might write. It is an extraordinary mixture of learning and naivete, of self-conscious poeticizing and shrewd observation, with dim characters wandering about in a grey, dreamlike fog, bumping into ghosts bearing the names of historical personages...