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...Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta and Houston fell in line with the increase, which was the third since last December. At that time, banks lifted their prime rate from 4½% to 5% ; in March they upped it again to 5½%. Taken together, the rises amount to the swiftest jump in borrowing rates in a generation...
That time never came. In July 1965, President Johnson announced that the U.S. would come to South Viet Nam's aid in full force. Within four months, in the swiftest mobilization of large forces in history, the U.S. deployed 100,000 men into position in Viet Nam some 8,000 miles away. American officers smoothly engineered the switch from their status as advisers to a native army to that of members of an American army in the field. The original concept of the use of American troops to guard enclaves of vital government real estate and plug the holes...
This French-bred farce is set in 1905, and Ford has no trouble convincing anyone that the swiftest road to hell is to read the early plays of George Bernard Shaw. That is what his daughter is doing, and she has already fallen in love with a chauffeur. Depravity surrounds Ford. The clerk of his sporting-goods concern has lifted half a million dollars from the firm, and makes a scoundrelly proposition. He will abscond with the loot unless Ford gives him his daughter's hand and a general managership. The swag is in two matching bags. When...
...presently depressed market for German coal and steel stocks improves. Last week's public offering also symbolized a growing recognition that one-man, head-of-the-family control over the empire may end with Alfried Krupp himself. His son Arndt, 28, the heir apparent, one of the swiftest of Western Europe's jet set, does not have an intense interest in business affairs. Already there have been suggestions that when Alfried Krupp steps aside, the Krupp holdings be placed in a family trust administered by a Krupp-dominated board...
While the fighting in Viet Nam makes most of the news, one of the world's largest and swiftest construction programs is changing the face of the country. The U.S. Government is directing a massive master plan aimed at providing the immediate necessities of war (bridges, roads, barracks), long-range civilian needs (power plants, water systems) and the huge strategic complexes (harbors, airfields, roads) necessary for supplying U.S. troops in a distant land with food, arms and equipment. Working at a vigorous pace, military engineers are planning and building dozens of the projects; so is the government-run Agency...