Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidents of the ten Final Clubs will serve on an advisory Board of Patrons to the Combined Charities Drive next year. Howard J. Phillips '62, co-chairman of the Drive, said yesterday that the move is planned in an attempt to increase undergraduate interest in the Drive and also to increase its overall prestige...
Though attrition was high, the Treasury had expected it, had enough cash on hand so it will not have to go to market again immediately. The T-men felt that sweetening the issue with a higher interest rate would not have done much good. With the pickup in business, corporations can see other uses for the money, are reluctant to hold an issue for a year. They prefer shorter-term bills, even though the rates are lower (2½-2⅝%) until they can see where money rates are going...
...week's end the rates went up. Major New York banks hiked their prime interest from 4% to 41%, equal to the prerecession level. The boost reflected heavier demands for bank loans by both business and consumers, also brought loan rates into line with yields on bonds. Most bankers now expect that the Federal Reserve will raise the discount rate from its current 3%. As interest rates climb, they will drive down farther a market already at a historic...
...first Western railroad men to modernize. In 1951 Gavin stepped out of the presidency and up to chairman of the board, the title previously held only by Hill and his son, Louis Hill. Until he broke a hip last fall, Gavin continued to take an active interest. Last week President John M. Budd informed Great Northern stockholders that Gavin, ailing at 78, had decided to resign as chairman and director...
...show corruption, and his story does so while remaining well within the bounds of what is acceptable on the modern screen or stage. The real trouble with the film lies in Williams' failure to make his people anything more than corrupt. They have more medical than dramatic interest--or at least they did until Elia Kazan got to work on them...