Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whisky. So I mentioned it to Mr. Beck. And Mr. Beck says, 'Well, you see what I mean, Levine, you don't get along very good with the members of Local 174, and my family is stockholders in your company. We have got to protect our interest...
Since another part of that interest entailed a loan-for which Beck was a guarantor-to Levine's company from Seattle's First National Bank, Levine saw what Dave meant. "I asked Mr. Beck, 'Well, you win, what do you want?' He said, 'I would like to have my son as president of the company and to have him have the complete say-so of drivers and of trucks.' So I agreed. That is what I had to do." Junior promptly became K & L's president, and next day the whisky truck...
...Washington affiliate, WMAL, first asked network officials if there was any interest in televising the hearings. Not enough to justify the cost, said ABC. It was the same argument with which CBS sealed off its network to live broadcasts of the first Beck hearings in March by Washington's WTOP. But WMAL's General Manager Fred Houwink polled other ABC affiliates and found plenty of interest. Most interested of all: Seattle's lively KING, whose manager, Otto Brandt, went quickly into action. Brandt lined up six other ABC affiliates willing to share the costs, also flew...
...Buffalo last week, President George S. Goodyear of the National Association of Home Builders declared that it was largely due to tight money. Countered Manhattan Life Insurance President Thomas E. Lovejoy Jr.: "The supply and demand for housing has more to do with the drop in starts than high interest rates. Since 1948, we have been building so many houses that the supply has finally caught up with the demand...
...this year, virtually all of the drop has been in the type of low-cost (under $15,000) Government-insured housing, where mortgage money is not available. There is little evidence of any slackening in demand for more expensive houses financed by conventional mortgages, whose 5½% to 6% interest rates (v. 4½% to 5% for Veterans Administration and FHA-insured mortgages) are competitive with other loans. Actually, as tight money has cut off the flow of funds for low-cost houses, it has spurred an upgrading in the entire industry. Many low-cost housebuilders have been forced...