Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Give me your money," he told the thrifty Romagna peasants, "and I'll double it for you in a year." Giuffrè always repaid the loans and interest promptly. Catholic charities invested large sums with him. And all the while, Giuffrè gave unstintingly to the church and its works. Not long after Giuffrè's black custom-built Fiat sedan drew up at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Cesta di Copparo, the Passionists had a new monastery, 20 new acres of farm land and an $850,000 Sanctuary to the Blessed Virgin of Peace...
Eminent Domain. By buying the Trib, fast-moving Jock Whitney stepped into the major league of U.S. publishers. A month ago he dealt off just under $7,000,000, added the prosperous Sunday supplement Parade to a communications domain that spans four TV stations, interests in the magazines Scientific American and Interior Design, two radio stations, the Great Northern Paper Co. The Trib purchase was no surprise. A year ago, Jock Whitney lent the Reids $1,200,000 with an option to convert the loan to stock. By the conversion, and the purchase of an unspecified number of additional shares...
...tall, lithe man with greying blond hair, Lawrence never looked his years. Born in Canton, S. Dak. of Norwegian stock, the son of a superintendent of schools, he was a radio tinkerer in high school, worked his way through local Midwestern colleges. His interest in radio led him to a Ph.D. in physics at Yale (1925), and he began studying ionization, the electrification of atoms by loss or gain of electrons. At 27 he was made an associate professor at the University of California, in 1930 conceived the idea of the cyclotron, which has been called "as useful in research...
...estate taxes over ten years at 4% interest. Previously, some small, closely held corporations had to be sold because estate taxes fell in a single year...
Most international financial experts believe quotas on both the World Bank and the IMF should be raised. But there is skepticism over Ike's third point, the International Development Association. The association would make long-term low-interest loans for projects the bank did not want to back because the borrower might not be able to pay back the money in hard currency. The IDA would accept repayments in soft currency...