Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just before the application system was altered, Lowell House rose from a long period of supposed decline to become one of the most consistently over-applied Houses. The new-found popularity was more the result of a lot of little things than any one factor, but all added up to one conclusion. For some not quite definable reason, Lowell is an inordinately pleasant place to spend three years...
...deposits of $2,500 or more pledged for at least nine months-and other large banks quickly followed suit. Sales finance companies also increased their interest charges to 5%. The Veterans Administration hiked its interest on G.I. mortgages from 5¼% to 5½% . Tax-free municipal bond yields rose to a postwar high of 3.83%, causing dozens of cities, counties and school districts to postpone or cancel millions of dollars worth of bond issues. Another effect of the credit pinch: auto finance companies have become tougher in risking loans, which is one reason why auto sales...
...tremors reverberated last week through Rome's Via Parigi, Rio's Avenida Rio Branco and Hong Kong's Queen's Road Central. With tens of thousands of non-American investors holding stakes in the U.S. stock market, foreign trading on the New York Stock Exchange rose from $5.8 billion in 1961 to $7.8 billion last year, when it accounted for more than 5% of all Big Board transactions. One reason for the market's weakness is that the foreigners have been selling. Last year they sold $409 million more than they bought, largely because...
...William Rose, chief Federal mediator, said after the meeting that a series of subcommittee meetings including mediators and representatives of the publishers and their striking printers and mailers will be held today. He said that it is likely that a formal meeting of all parties involved in the strike will be called Saturday...
...Uzlian to try his luck in America. Mama immediately sent her five-year-old son off to her uncle, a penniless rabbi who lived several hundred miles away. For almost five years the little boy lived there. He was an only child among a household of grownups; he rose with them at sunup and for twelve or 14 hours a day intoned pages of ancient texts in Hebrew and Aramaic until he could repeat them by heart...