Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shaw's proverbial wit is abundantly manifest. At one point the self-styled "greatest living master of letters" exclaims, "All I ask is to have my own way in everything." And after an ovation at a play, he said, "My impulse was to rise and bless them. I often feel like the Pope...
While U.S. firms with high credit ratings can still make short-term loans at 4%, British businessmen must pay 51%. In Germany, Japan, France, Brazil and Greece, interest rates run anywhere from 7% to 12%. For smaller companies, the effective rate often is much higher, reaching 25% or more annually. Even at such rates, demand so far outstrips supply that companies are hard-pressed for expansion capital, are turning increasingly to profits to get the funds they need. In Britain, West Germany and Belgium, some businessmen are plowing up to 60% of all profits back into their firms...
...harm the free world's economy over the long run. Most consider it an inevitable and, to some extent, desirable byproduct of worldwide prosperity. In many nations, the shortage of money acts as a brake on hell-for-leather expansion programs that threaten to burst their economic seams. Often the general effect is to create a natural rationing system based on the laws of supply and demand, which tends to channel capital away from marginal projects into more important-and often more profitable-enterprises...
Coffee-Break Cup. For the busy executive, whose morning cup of coffee at the office often gets cold before he can drink it, Emson Corp. put on sale an insulated, double-walled aluminum mug with a cap that works like a Thermos, keeps liquids hot for hours. Price...
Tornado Alarm. To predict local tornadoes, which often come up too suddenly for the Weather Bureau to forecast, Tornado, Inc., of Oklahoma City, will soon market a barometer with an electrical contact point that sets off an alarm buzzer when atmospheric pressure dips to a dangerous level. Battery-powered signal is small enough to fit in the glove compartment of a car, will give 20 minutes' notice of tornado-producing conditions, says the inventor. Price...