Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struggle to pull Bolivia's economy back from the brink of ruin. President Hernán Siles Zuazo has had solid cash backing from the U.S. One day last week, surrounded by members of his Cabinet. Siles strolled through the sunshine from the presidential palace to the Congress building. There, in the first state-of-the-nation speech since his inauguration a year ago, President Siles made the unusual gesture of giving heartfelt public thanks...
...wealthy strip of Eastern Seaboard where Lanin usually roams, the demand for his services is fiercely competitive. He has solid bookings as far ahead as 1963, verbal engagements up to 1968. The mammas book him for their infant daughters' debuts in the same way that the papas book their infant sons for Yale; Lanin rechecks each booking a year or two before the scheduled date just in case "they haven't been clipping their coupons...
...many businessmen, worried about soft spots in the economy, the nation's bankers last week gave solid reassurance of the continued strength of the boom. The demand for credit for expansion of all kinds is still so great-and money so tight-that Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. boosted its prime rate for loans from 4% to 4½%. Banks around the country soon followed. Two days later the Federal Reserve Board approved a boost in the discount rate by four of its twelve district banks from 3% to 3½%. The new Fed rates, highest since...
...Treasury to refinance the $8.1 billion debt coming due in September and October. But the increase in prime rates, plus the fact that borrowings from the Federal Reserve system had soared from $553 million to $1 billion in one week forced the Fed's hand. This seemed solid evidence to the Federal Reserve Board that the real danger is still inflation-and the boom still has plenty of steam...
...Poet Jiménez won his Nobel Prize did Translator Roach get her publishing break. In the meantime. Professor William Roberts of Nashville's Vanderbilt University and his wife Mary had translated about three-quarters of the book and found a British publisher. The Roach translation holds two solid advantages: completeness and literary distinction...