Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk to Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, Contributing Editor Peter Bird Martin flew from New York to Buenos Aires, asked to fly home with LeMay aboard his record-setting KC-135 jet tanker. LeMay agreed to take him only if wind and temperature would permit his heavily loaded jet to leave Ezeiza Airport's short runway safely with Martin's extra weight (187 Ibs.) aboard. He ordered Martin to report back to the plane at 5:30 next morning. In a cool dawn, Martin discovered conditions were favorable, climbed aboard, was able to radio TIME...
...outsized (62 persons) National Security Council meeting, lunched with 51 leaders of the Crusade for Freedom, spent 50 minutes with the British Labor Party's U.S.-baiting, Russian-admiring Aneurin Bevan. He rounded out the day in an economic review with Bob Anderson, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., Economic Advisers Ray Saulnier and Gabriel Hauge...
After 2½ years of tramping hard on the nation's credit brakes, the Federal Reserve last week lifted its foot. FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. and his board approved a cut in the discount rate from 3½% to 3% by Federal Reserve Banks in New York, Richmond, Atlanta and St. Louis. The remaining eight districts were expected to follow soon. Next day the stock market reversed its bearish decline of recent weeks (see below), and U.S. businessmen everywhere breathed a sigh of relief...
Barks from the Fed. Concentrating on the very real dangers of inflation, FRB Chairman Martin and his experts barked so long and so loud that they sounded as if the Federal Reserve was determined to keep credit tight come what may. Only a fortnight ago Chairman Martin preached harshly about inevitable declines (TIME, Nov. 18). As it turned out, says Martin, "I talked too long"-meaning he may have laid it on too thick. Now Martin, who is no man to overstay the market, finally agreed with many businessmen that the risks of deflation outweigh the problems of inflation...
Dave Donaldson will replace Norris in a Crimson lineup which will include senior Pete Reider, juniors Dyke Benjamin, Jim Schlaeppi, and Willie Thompson, and sophomores Ed Martin and Wes Hildreth...