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...year when everyone who calls himself a Christian goes to church, if he ever goes at all. Congregations flock churchward in their Easter best, and the churches themselves are brave with flowers; the preachers for once preach joyful sermons, the singing soars with hallelujahs. After the penitential season of Lent, the long winter night of the Christian year, Easter comes like the dawn -the dawn of the first day of spring...
Writer Bill McHale is back in BUSINESS & FINANCE after three months' work for another weekly magazine, the London Economist. He didn't quit; he wasn't fired; he was lent, from TIME...
...Senators brought out that Rosenbaum and others interested in getting RFC loans had lent Young about $135,000 during one period in question. During that period, Young's own insurance business brought him only $1,900, but he bought-in addition to the mink coat-a $52,000 house and pieces of several business deals. Snapped Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, chairman of the investigating subcommittee: "You don't expect this committee to believe that just out of a clear sky you suddenly fell in love with Mr. Young, do you? Do you think we are so naive...
...profits, Earl Slick is putting up $500,000 of the $1,000,000 cost of his first DC-6A; Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. lent the balance. With 1951's business still gaining (February profit: $150,000 before taxes), Slick has made similar deals for two more DC-6As to be delivered later this year, for a total $3,500,000 expansion. The three new planes (payload: 30,000 Ibs. each) will boost his cargo capacity almost...
...Protestant women are urged to go without food on Friday, Feb. 9. The newly formed National Council of Churches (TIME, Dec. 11), urging observance of the first Friday of Lent as a 24-hour period of fasting, said that "physical hunger can help us to understand the people of the world who are hungry and suffering through no choice of their...