Word: recording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clear Record. In Phoenix, Ariz., Representative David Hill Campbell had a sign on his desk in the Arizona state legislature: "Don't ask me for any information. If I knew anything, I would not be here...
...classrooms, looser requirements on certain classes of FHA loans. In sum, the bill carried an "inflationary" total of $2.2 billion spending obligations telescoped into two years, which, the President wrote, would "drive private credit from areas where it is urgently needed," and damage an industry now abuilding at near record levels...
...points to close at 654.76. It was well above the previous alltime high of 643.79 set May 29. and more than 70 points ahead of where the average started on Jan. 1. Brokers expected the climb to continue. Not only was business news generally bright, but the record showed that industrials have advanced smartly in July and August in two years out of every three during the 20th century...
...found that in June there were 82 dividend boosts (v. 55 a year ago), only four cuts (v. 58) and 13 omissions (v. 40). It believes that "an unusually large number of extras will be voted near the close of the year, making 1959 the best year on record...
...Cold Fish. Maybe one of Dick Nixon's troubles is that he is too perfect. His God-fearing parents of modest means, the excellence of his record in school, his beginnings as a lawyer in Whittier (known as "Ye Friendly Town"), and his liking for pineapple milk shakes are all almost too good to be true. He has an amazing degree of self-control and neatness-the secretary of his old Whittier law firm recalls that when he came to work, the first thing he did was to take several hundred books off the shelves to dust them...