Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move to shorten delivery time, the collection hour for mail on Sundays and holidays has been changed from 6:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Boston area. The administration of the District Operating Office of Metropolitan Boston ordered the change so that the Sunday mail could be sorted in time to be picked up by earlier trains and planes...
Many scholarships for this year's Freshmen will also be raised, Bender explained. "The Freshman is in a tough spot because he will have to move from rooms generally priced under $185 to House rooms costing considerably more...
...HAVEN, March 16--In a dramatic move designed to soothe town-gown bitterness caused by the St. Patrick's parade riot here Saturday, Yale University Deans today imposed "general probation" on the entire undergraduate body...
Whether the Fed's move was justified was loudly disputed. Certain congressional Democrats lined up against the rate hike. "Extraordinary." said Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas. "An awful thing," said Chairman Wright Patman of the House Small Business Committee, who issued a new call for a sweeping inquiry into federal fiscal and monetary policies. The Fed's move, said A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, "represents a further tight-money dampener to economic recovery, while 6% of the labor force is still unemployed, and about 20% of productive capacity is idle...
Actually, the Fed's move will probably have little effect on credit. Money is not very scarce. Although banks have more of their deposits out on loans now than they did at the end of the last recession in early 1955 (largely because of a tremendous two-year growth in loans), the demand for loans has dropped off. With capital spending down and profits edging up, many industries have built up a good cash fund, do not need loans...