Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However small, the victory margin opened the door to the governorship for Daniel, who will face only token Republican opposition in November. He is expected to resign his Senate seat some time between the general election and his January inauguration, in which case his successor will be picked in a singleshot, leader-take-all special election. Already a declared Senate candidate and the early favorite: ultraconservative, Red-chasing Congressman at Large Martin Dies. Likely to give Dies his toughest competition: Ralph Yarborough...
...total of 84 amendments in the original act have since given the Fed greater central authority and more power to regulate the money supply. For example, when the 1929 crash showed that the FRB had inadequate controls to restrain credit abuses, it was empowered to set margin rates for brokerage loans...
...passengers at all. The rails' $153,000-a-mile capital investments in bridges, yards, rails, for example, is needed for the freight traffic that accounts for 87% of the roads' revenue. Eliminating passenger traffic would therefore cut fixed costs by very little, but would cut out a margin of pure profit...
...daily publishing by a "cold type" photo-offset process instead of conventional letterpress printing. The process uses no hot metal, no Linotype machines, no matrixes or engraved plates. Copy is typed on special typewriters that print "justified" lines, i.e., they fill out each line flush to the right-hand margin. Then it is pasted on a sheet, photographed and printed on an aluminum plate, much as a photographic negative is printed. Mounted on a press, the plate transfers the image to a hard rubber roller, then onto the newsprint. To start publishing, the Record spent less than $250,000 (including...
...absence of this international piece of silverware did not seem to lesson the Americans' force as they held their two match margin over the remaining two days. Harris beat Robinson, 6-0, 4-6, 6-3, and in doubles Harris teamed with Junta to take the fifth American victory of the competition...