Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Favorites. To soften the blow a bit, the government offered a special rate of 57 pesetas to the dollar compared to the official rate of 42. But Franco seemed to be playing no favorites. Among those caught were such men as the powerful Conde de Arteche, chairman of the Banco de Bilbao, and Juan March, one of the world's richest men. Also involved were Franco-sponsored organizations, such as the giant Institute Nacional de Industria, which controls everything from airlines to steel mills...
...when Treasurer Joseph Heywood tried to prevent an unauthorized withdrawal from the bank he served as cashier-and was gunned down by Jesse James's boys. If the Congregational college's endowment vanished with the Missouri badman, it did not weigh heavily in his saddlebags; at any rate, Carleton-named first for the town of Northfield, later renamed for Boston Benefactor William Carleton-survived...
Hypothesis II. The second theory is known as "the steady state universe." It holds that matter is still being mysteriously created in the form of hydrogen gas. Matter appears at the rate of a few atoms per year in each cubic mile of space. As the galaxies fly apart, new galaxies form out of fresh hydrogen in the widening gaps between them. These galaxies in turn grow old, fly apart and leave the space between them free for the formation of another generation...
...companies are able to go ahead with their expansion, which has made gas the fastest-growing fuel. They are also relieved of the possibility that they might have to refund $225 million in already collected rate hikes, even though the FPC might later approve them...
MISTRESS TO AN AGE, by J. Christopher Herold. Germaine de Staël back again in a first-rate biography of the woman who rode the French Revolution like a balky horse, managed, without beauty or other feminine graces, to capture as lovers many of the foremost men of her day. Napoleon said no, and that may have been his major mistake...