Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...printed it August 15, under a three-column headline. We printed it again August 30. It was four months later . . . that we carried our first story on the factory finding other jobs for them. 2) TIME says the Journal, until last week, "even banned the word recession from the paper." The most cursory check shows we were calling it the "current business recession" on page one as long ago as January 15. We've used the word almost daily since...
...optimism was based on his hope that the economy would soon be feeling the impact of wide-ranging Government antirecession measures. Last week he asked Congress to authorize immediate expenditure of half the funds requested in his 1959 budget for civilian agency supplies and equipment, e.g., desks, paper clips. Promptly okayed by the House Appropriations Committee, the measure will enable the Administration to pay out or commit some $840 million that otherwise would not be touchable until after midyear...
...Massachusetts-born Rocket Pioneer Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945)-to such futuristic items as an estimate of the cost of sending mail by rocket to the moon ($25 a letter). It even offers a relaxing bit of science fiction ("The liquid blonde girl came toward him, smiling . . ."). The slick-paper Space Journal is flawed by wooden pictures, text that sometimes strays too far ahead of or behind the layman, and an overexposure of Huntsville's Spaceman Wernher von Braun. But it already shows improvement. For future numbers it has lined up articles from such experts as Air Force Balloonist...
...billion to buy FHA and Veterans Administration-insured mortgages up to $13,500 each at par (100%) value. Previously, Fannie Mae bought mortgages from lenders at discounts of 2% or 3% from par and found the market slim. Now, by fixing the price of FHA and VA paper at par, Fannie Mae expects lenders to sell more mortgages to the Government, thus unlocking up to $1 billion in fresh credit. In addition, the bill gives $550 million to Fannie Mae to buy mortgages on urban renewal projects, low-cost and military housing and homes for aged buyers, and authorizes...
...bring together Arab businessmen with capital to invest and Western outfits with the necessary know-how who will be willing to accept a minority interest. Tentatively. Rykens has set a ceiling of 40% for Western financial participation. MIDEC will concentrate initially on small industrial enterprises such as paper mills, breweries, fertilizer, bicycle, textile and chemical plants. However much Arabs distrust the West, Rykens thinks they still respect Western technological ability enough to make the plan work...