Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind him. After starting out as an errand boy, he was, when he retired in 1955, general and political secretary of the Independent Labor Party. Retirement, he soon found, turned out to be a bore-"a little too much smoking, a little too much drinking, a gradual loss of interest in world affairs and, finally, senility at the end." After eight months of it, Bachelor McNair went before the King's College board in the fall of 1955. He discussed in both English and French his lifetime of wide reading, soon convinced the members that there was no real...
Search for the Man. Mies van der Rohe's chance to build his first Manhattan skyscraper came through a young woman who is neither a corporation executive nor a professional architect, but has a personal interest in both Seagram's and architecture. Mrs. Phyllis Bronfman Lambert, 31, daughter of Seagram President Samuel Bronfman, was living in Europe in 1954 when she saw a magazine story about the building her father proposed to build. "I was boiling with fury," she recalls. "I wrote him that he wanted a really fine building, and he was lucky to be living...
...wrong with so-called 'free enterprise.' The truth is that there are services that can be rendered more effectively by the people acting together. A few more eggheads in the automobile industry to supplant the blockheads who have designed our recent cars would be in our national interest. Who are the madmen who build cars so long they cannot be parked . . . and so powerful that no man dare use the horsepower available...
...policy of easing money seemed to be getting results. Last week several New York banks lopped ½% off time-deposit rates, dropped them to 2% or 2½%. As interest rates edged down, demand for credit picked up. Loans by New York City banks rose $152 million last week, more than twice the gain of the same 1957 week...
...underscore the point last week, New Haven President George Alpert, who likes to fiddle to take his mind off his road's troubles, announced that the New Haven's finances were so poor it could not pay some $2,000,000 interest charges due May 1 on its 4½% general mortgage bonds. Instead it will defer the payment, write its stockholders an IOU, and hope for better times -while the unpaid interest accumulates, thus making the eventual reckoning just that much steeper...