Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took them five years to find the funds. When they had the money at last (about $270), the urn was opened, and there was Chih Hang-his body considerably thinned, but firm and uncorrupted. Last week, in another shrine, guarded by stone lions and surrounded by Buddha figures, Chih sat for his gilding. Throngs of pilgrims came carrying incense sticks, bearing rice offerings, dropping coins in collection boxes. Meanwhile, Chen Lu-kuan, a goldsmith from Taipei, covered the body with a lacquered silk cloth and tenderly began to apply gilt with a brush...
...nursed the dirty-white Leader Card Special in front to stay on the 86th lap, sped home the winner by a tight 23 sec. over Veteran Jim Rathmann. Ward's average speed-135.857 m.p.h.-was a new record for the race, earned him well over $100.000 in prize money...
Decay & Disorder. In a flurry of understanding, Rome gave Orano a hero's welcome, with gifts of a TV set. books and money, and promises of special consideration in the Lazzaretto Spallanzani. (Despite intensive treatment in France with sulfone drugs, the once powerful Orano was by this time gnarled and weakened, his handsome face disfigured, his blue eyes clouded.) But the promises were soon forgotten. Roman bureaucrats enforced the letter of antiquated Italian law. They let the faithful Giulia live with him in an isolated cottage (he is the only leprosy victim in Spallanzani), forced her to take full...
...begins for Chief Inspector Gideon (Jack Hawkins) when a "copper's nark" (informer) turns over a nasty kettle of fish: a member of Gideon's staff has taken hush money from a dope ring. Gideon rushes off to the office, rips the lettuce off his lapsed subordinate, sends out the alert for a sex murderer from Manchester. Then he looks in at the scene of a payroll robbery, gets word that the inspector he sacked has been killed by a passing car, discovers that the same car was used in the payroll job. Puzzled, he rushes...
...approved a hike in the discount rate on loans to commercial banks from 3% to 3½% for five member banks: New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Dallas. The new discount rate is the highest since the fall of 1957, is bound to restrict even further the tightening money market. The Federal National Mortgage Association braced itself for tighter money by reducing the price it will pay for Government underwritten mortgages from 99% to 97% of face value. When money gets tight, as Fannie May knows, lenders turn in their mortgages to get the cash they need for other...