Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feet was the varsity's narrow margin of victory in its opener against Tech and the Engineers should be every bit as tough this time. Stroke Larry Cabot will also have to keep his eye on Dartmouth, which swept by Yale at Hanover last Saturday in excellent early season time...
...Faculty also decided by a narrow margin a recommendation made by the President's Committee on Seals, Arms and Diplomas that henceforth all Ph.D diplomas be done in English and not in Latin. This motion, which still must gain Corporation sanction, is expected to be fully approved in time for this year's graduating class...
...market hit a new high last week, the Federal Reserve Board boosted margin requirements, the amount of cash needed to buy a stock, by 10% (to 70%). This was the second increase in four months. Though the credit tightening was less than expected, FRB nevertheless hopes it will slow down the market's rise by cutting the amount of margin trading. Brokers' loans to customers in April were double the rate of the first three months, although the total amount of credit in the market is but a tiny percentage of the $176 billion value of the listed...
...crews entered Harvard Brige nearly together and emerged about six feet apart as the Badgers moved ahead for the first time. Princeton was a contender only for the first three-quarters of a mile, after which it dropped back of the leaders by a considerable margin. After the start, M.I.T. never seriously threatened the three other crews...
...testimony before the Senate Finance and Banking Committee last month, Galbraith said that, if the present unstable conditions failed to change, all stock exchanges should be put on a cash basis by raising margins to 100 per cent. "If speculation continues," he said yesterday, "I would certainly want an even further increase in margin rates...