Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also this type of student who gives Holt the biggest headaches. Many of them turn up their noses at $40 a week jobs for less remunerative ones that will keep them in a lower income tax bracket. Others, who work for the pleasure of it are apt to quit at a crucial moment without telling their employees. Needless to say, this does no good to the reputation of the Bureau...
Only a Landslide. In traditionally Republican Iowa, the story was much the same. Aging, ailing Senator George Wilson, handicapped by a mouth operation which had cost him his lower teeth, was losing ground fast to the Democrats' ex-Senator Guy Gillette. In a year when Iowans had already shown their dissatisfaction with the ins by dumping Republican Governor Robert Blue (TIME, June 21), it looked as though Guy Gillette, who has' always had a big following in both parties, could be stopped only by a thundering Dewey landslide...
...thought so was the Equitable Life Assurance Society's Thomas I. Parkinson. Said Parkinson: "Neither banks nor life-insurance companies have any right to expect a guaranteed buyer." Parkinson thought that FRB should let the bonds find their own level in a free market. His argument was that lower bond prices meant higher yields, and higher yields on Treasuries would in turn push up the commercial interest rate. Making credit more expensive, thought Parkinson, would help nip inflation...
...expansion in 1947, said Price, less than 4.7% (only $1.25 billion) came from stock sales, i.e., risk capital (and half of this was in preferred stock). The rest came from accumulated profits, loans, or new bond issues. The 1948 rate of investment in new stock issues is even lower. But industry cannot go on financing expansion out of past profits ("now almost completely committed") or borrowing ("an already visible limit...
Hollywood, waiting tensely for the trip to the operating room, heard the clink of the amputation tools. When the Supreme Court held Hollywood's major studios guilty of violating the antitrust laws (TIME, May 17), it sent the case back to the lower court for a tougher ruling on how the studios should divorce themselves from their theater chains...