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...astounding fact is that the U.S. Government is now operating some 100 separate types of business enterprises in which it has sunk at least $40 billion. Among other things, the Government has become the nation's largest insurer, electric-power producer, lender, landlord, grain owner, warehouse operator and shipowner. It monopolizes the world's biggest potential new industry: atomic energy...
University finance officials took a dim view of Brown's spring lark, and promptly provided him with a police escort to Dean Watson's office. Watson, conversant with fiduciary matters, gracefully accepted the silver dollars, explaining: "Refusal to accept legal lender in discharge of a debt would make that debt null and void...
...plenty of money in its pocket. National income rose, in the first quarter, to a rate of $304 billion v. $288 billion in the 1952 period. Nevertheless, some economists worried about the "danger" of consumer credit, which is now at an alltime peak of $24 billion. Many a lender, notably the Bank of America, biggest in the world, began to tighten up on small loans, as businessmen talked of a possible recession if an end to the Korean war brought sharp cutbacks in rearmament orders...
...barber, Johnson picked up plenty of gossip right in his shop, but he also got around town. He owned a farm, did a steady business as money lender, ran a thriving bathhouse and hired out slaves. Next to business, his passion was "manly sport." He seems to have spent as much time at the busy Natchez race track as he did in his shop, bet regularly, and finally owned his own race horses. Marksmanship and hunting ran racing a close second. Unfortunately, Johnson would shoot anything that moved, from alligators to robins. A typical day's bag: "2 Squirrells...
Rolaud F. Perkius '52 and Kenneth J. Rockford '54 were magnificent as a money-lender and old man respectively. This play goes on the boards at 3 p.m. today and again at 8.30 p.m. It is well worth seeing...