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...Ridge. In 1946, Captain Rickover, still a sharp, square peg confronted by polished, rounded holes, learned that the Bureau of Ships had decided to send a captain and four junior officers to Oak Ridge to study nuclear energy. He got the job. (No other qualified captain applied.) Nuclear physics in those days was something to scare even brilliant officers...
...Serve dem right! ... All dese big puff-up high-color people-Ah never sorry when . . . they get tek down a peg...
Ethel & Albert (Sat. 7:30 p.m., NBC). A comedy series starring Peg Lynch, Alan Bunce...
...World War II, the FRB also had to peg bond prices to enable the Treasury to float the tremendous additional debt ($226,500,000,000) to finance the war. The issues were so huge that only banks, rather than individuals, could absorb most of them. This "monetized" the debt, for banks did not pay for the bonds outright. They simply created a deposit for the Government to draw checks against it. Receivers of these checks deposited them in their own bank accounts. From these increased deposits, the banks could lend about $5 for each $1 received. Thus credit, and inflation...
Ethel & Albert (Sat. 7:30 p.m., NBC). A radio veteran becomes a regular TV series, starring Peg Lynch. Alan Bunce...