Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Declaration of Panama, he was beset by the most wildly cheering throng he had ever experienced, finally arrived at his destination-a short three miles away-in 32 minutes. Before leaving for Panama last week, the President: ¶ Conferred with Treasury's George Humphrey, Commerce's Sinclair Weeks, Labor's James Mitchell, Economist Arthur Burns and Federal Mediator Joseph Finnegan on the steel strike, expressed concern over the delay in settlement (though he stuck to his decision to stay out of the case); at week's end steel and union scheduled new negotiations for this week...
MYSTERIOUS CAPITAL from abroad, possibly from Iron Curtain nations, is worrying SEC Chairman J. Sinclair Armstrong. Large amounts of foreign funds are coming into U.S. from Swiss and Canadian banks, which keep sources secret (accounts are known only by number). Possibility that Iron Curtain investors might try to gain secret control of vital U.S. corporations, says Armstrong, "is a matter of great concern...
Take away unhappy childhoods and a seething contempt for the old hometown and many a U.S. writer might never have set pen to paper. Still, rebels like Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson and Theodore Dreiser were moved at least as much by compassion for their Midwestern farmers and townsfolk as they were by a kind of rage because life was not more beautiful. Their kind of literary rebellion is as dated today as the harsh, shallow life they raged against. That is what makes The Narrow Covering, a first novel by Kansas-born Julia Siebel, as curious and archaic as grandpa...
Most experts agree that SEC, under Chairman J. Sinclair Armstrong, does a competent job in the main areas of responsibility outlined by Congress in the Securities Act of 1933. Such evils as rigged markets have disappeared, and Wall Street, which once fought bitterly against Government interference, now stands solidly behind SEC's work. Backed by strict laws, SEC makes sure that all new issues by listed corporations are accompanied by registration statements giving enough financial information to investors...
...biggest public works program since the Pharaohs piled up the Pyramids will help the economy for another generation. Before the signature of President Eisenhower was dry on the highway construction bill, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks announced the allocation to the states of $1,125,000,000 in federal funds for the first year. The Associated General Contractors predicted that $100 million in construction contracts will be let by state highway departments within the next two months. Another $300 million in contracts is expected before the year is out. The bill, which raised taxes on gasoline a penny a gallon...