Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Little to Late? But the Dutch, the Scandinavians, and above all the British, with their slowed-down economy, are less sure that they can avert a deeper slide. Tough, restrictive policies in Britain saved the pound (Britain's reserves climbed last week to $3.1 billion, highest since 1950), but they held down inflationary pressure so much that Tory leaders must now worry about the threat from the opposite direction. Like the rest of Europe, the British have so far reaped the benefits of the 15-20% fall in world commodity prices since last year. But some raw-material...
...sort of thing you read about in psychological novels. Morris was a young man out of the West who came to Harvard because he wanted to be a writer, and the Cambridge community had spawned its share of the literati--from T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound to Conrad Aiken and Henry Miller. The spectrum appeared to be wide enough for Morris--hero of the high school avant-garde. And he brought plenty of yellow paper with...
...sooner is the incentive payment dispensed than it can be demanded back as excessive profit. As Boeing's Allen says: "By all odds the most unenlightened aspect of the whole renegotiation mess is that it ignores how good a job you're doing-how many dollars per pound you're saving the Government by beating cost figures." In seven years of producing B-47 and B-52 jet bombers and KC-97 tankers, Boeing saved $131.5 million on their anticipated prices-and got aggregate incentive profits of some $25 million-or $9,900,000 net after taxes...
...Oscar Levant, an ounce of attention is worth a pound of cure-and he was getting lots of attention last week...
Repriever. In Newport. Ark., a bulldog just freed from the city pound tunneled his way back into the enclosure, helped open the way to escape for seven other dogs who were digging from the inside...