Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...use, though, for in a minute Miss Schroeder went away as she had come. Lucius, in a moment of unrestrained spirit, coughed deeply and tore his best yellow page marker into little pieces...
...remainder would come from philanthropy and endowment incomes ($500 million to $1 billion yearly if prosperity continues) and stringent college economizing. Items: bigger classes, fewer "small" courses, using existing classrooms for longer hours, more use of TV lecturing. There is no reason, Economist Harris believes, why economies cannot cut the fat from college spending and yield another $1 billion to $2 billion annually. If the U.S. follows his budget, he suggested, it can easily find $7 billion a year to pay for its booming colleges...
Concerned over "the excessive use of credit for purchasing securities," the Federal Reserve Board last week ordered new regulations to curb stock market credit. The Fed kept its basic rule that investors must put up 90% cash on new stock purchases. It added new provisions, effective June 15, to cover accounts in which stocks were bought on margin before the present margin rate. Formerly, if an investor sold stock, held on a margin below 90%, he had to use only 10% of the proceeds to pay off his debt to the broker. Now he must apply 50% of the proceeds...
...presidents of both the New York Exchange and the American Stock Exchange denied that stocks were booming on borrowed money. Said the New York Stock Exchange's G. Keith Funston: "There is no evidence of excessive use of credit in the market...
MINIMUM WAGE LAW for about 2,500,000 retail and service industry workers not currently covered by legislation will be pushed by Labor Secretary Mitchell. He wants $1 an hour minimum to cover enterprises with 100 or more employees, which use $1,000,000 annually in goods involved in interstate commerce. The Administration proposal will go up against the Kennedy-Morse bill, which would boost the minimum wage to $1.25 an hour, add coverage to include 7,800,000 employees of businesses with gross annual sales of $500,000 or more...