Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortunately the acting often injects dramatic stature into the story. Especially Edward G. Robinson, as the manufacturer, adds an element of power. Tormented by growing old, he evokes considerable interest and even compassion in his fight for a relationship and a life that even he himself is not sure will work out. Robinson can also stalk in and out of an overcoat with a gusto that dwarfs almost any action that anyone else performs on stage, partly because his better supporting actors have rather inactive roles...
...class rates. Summerfield told Murrow that the rates amounted to a $250 million a year "subsidy" to publishers. For magazine publishers the Reader's Digest's Albert L. Cole hotly disputed such figures, argued that Congress intended low magazine postal rates to promote education and the public interest...
There were plenty of signs last week that tight money is beginning to loosen. The Treasury Department's costs for floating its 91-day bills edged down for the second week, stood at an average 3.528%. Furthermore, interest rates on bankers' acceptances, i.e., a form of short-term commercial loans, have dropped in the past month from...
...demand for long-term money-which a few months ago had raced far ahead of supply-was being pinched off by high interest rates. Businessmen still wanted to expand, but they were so hard-pressed to find the funds-and so reluctant to pay the steep interest-that they were shelving many marginal projects...
Today Ludwig is the sole owner of National Bulk Carriers, Inc., Universe Tankships, Inc., Seatankers, Inc., has a 58.7% interest in American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. To build ships for only $150 per d.w.t. (v. nearly $300 in the U.S.), he signed a lease on the old Imperial Japanese Navy shipyard in Kure in 1951 that runs to 1961, can be renewed to 1966. To fuel his fleet of more than 40 ships, which he sails with low-cost West Indian crews under the Liberian flag, Ludwig is building a 70,000-bbl.-a-day day refinery in Panama, also...