Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World Bank loan, the largest European development credit granted by the bank to date. It went to Italy's Cassa per Il Mezzogiorno (Southern Development Fund), the special government agency set up in 1950 to push a twelve-year, $2 billion southern revival program. Hampered by petty politics, minor graft and insufficient funds ($180 million yearly), the Cassa has moved slowly for the size of the job, but results are already apparent. It has stimulated $320-million worth of private investment in the region. It has built 18,000 new farm houses, 1,800 miles of road, and increased...
...fact that minor dips scare the odd-lotter easily, even when the market is basically sound, makes him a poor short-term trader. For example, during the Fulbright investigation last March when the market broke sharply (TIME, March 21), the number of odd-lot sales rose sharply. But, in general, the small investor is not an in-and-out-of-the-market speculator. Chief reason: it is slightly more expensive to buy or sell odd lots at a given price since an extra broker's commission of one-eighth of a point is charged...
Died. R. W. ("Dick") Burnett, 57, millionaire oilman, sole owner of the Dallas Eagles of the Texas League (for which he paid a record $500,000 in 1949), named Minor League Executive of the Year in 1953 for his partially successful fight to give the minor leagues a larger voice in making baseball rules; of a heart ailment; in Shreveport...
...voice when she decides it must be classical music "because there's no vocal." Tom Ewell brings the expertise of long familiarity to his part of the agonized husband, but Director Wilder has let several of Ewell's monologues go on a shade too long. In minor roles, Robert Strauss and Donald MacBride also help to slow down the farce pace, while Oscar Homolka, as the psychiatrist, loses most of his best lines in transition from Broadway and delivers the remainder in too impenetrable an accent. Itch should have emerged on the screen as a fast, furious...
Anyone who tosses generalizations about so freely is bound to miss the mark now and then. Siegfried's essays on American economics seem obvious or dated; his discourses on politics are marred by errors of a sort that never appeared in America Comes of Age. Yet, minor inaccuracies notwithstanding, he can hit off a brisk two-page thumbnail of F.D.R. with a degree of objectivity difficult for an American to attain. France's No. 1 living authority on the U.S. has written the sort of Socratic book about America that, he would argue, America itself cannot easily produce...