Word: towards
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...installment buying, authorized by the special session of Congress. Requirements thereafter: a one-third down payment on new or used automobiles and 20% on most household goods, payment of the balance in 15 months (if less than $1,000) or 18 months (if above $1,000). Meanwhile the trend toward higher interest rates, which the Treasury and FRB had started by upping their short-term and rediscount rates, continued; the Chase National Bank raised its rates on call money (brokers' loans) from...
...TOWARD THE MORNING (458 pp.) -Hervey Allen-Rinehart...
...chapters could be taken from Hervey Allen's books. Since he went to Bermuda 21 years ago to research and write Anthony Adverse, Author Allen (who now lives in the U.S.) has gone on plowing the past behind a strong but long-winded team of scholarship and storytelling. Toward the Morning is the third big volume in a pentalogy that began with The Forest and the Fort (TIME, April...
...reading book," says the author, is "what we all want these days ... a book in which we can lose ourselves . . ." If this is all everybody wants, his new novel provides a decent degree of immersion. The story of a wagon journey across Pennsylvania in 1764, Toward the Morning moves with all the jingle and creak and rich, contemplative leisure of a horse-drawn cavalcade in open country. The reader has all the time in the world to take in everything, and the author gives him everything...
...strapping, 6 ft. 4 white hero, brought up by Indians, whose progress toward the niceties of civilization is not enough to keep him from salting away the hand of an enemy as a trophy...