Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unhappy victim of the Federal Reserve's "tight money" policy has been the housebuilding industry. The banks, with more borrowers than money available, have looked down their noses at Government-backed mortgage loans with their relatively low (4½%) yields in favor of higher returns in other fields. Result: a drop in new housing starts from 1,329,000 in 1955 to the current rate of 1,100,000 a year. Last week, to sweeten up such loans for the bankers-and thus make more funds available to home builders-the Government raised the interest rate...
...stocky man with dynamic energy and ice-cold grey-blue eyes, Serov stayed behind the scenes, but his techniques were soon noticed. Soviet security police and a new Hungarian force, called the "R troops," began picking up more young Hungarians. Anyone over 14 years of age was a potential victim. They were taken to the large Vermezoe subway station, where an army detail of 120 men drove off frantic parents. Below ground the youths, boys and girls, were herded into boxcars which were moved out in the dead of night. A train drawing 24 sealed wagons was seen heading east...
...which gradually spiral down to level of post office such as Cambridge, 38, and which is so tied up with relatively small considerations that any large-scale improvement such as the correction of the existing New York mail situation becomes virtually impossible. A Post office for Harvard University falls victim to the same type of disinterest in any sort of problem which might take an excessive amount of study and consideration. Within this framework the local office is quite helpless...
From time to time a Stalin purge victim turns up quietly in Moscow, but last week was the first occasion one was received with bands playing and flags flying. As the train bearing Poland's First Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka pulled into Moscow's Belorussian station, a curious crowd pressed at the barriers for a glimpse of the man Stalin had jailed as a suspected "Titoist" in 1951 and whose recent rehabilitation had caused Stalin's successors much concern. Only a month ago First Party Secretary Khrushchev, flying in to Warsaw, had brushed Gomulka's hand...
...victim of arteriosclerosis has a shutdown in an easily accessible artery (e.g., thigh or arm), surgeons can cut out the diseased section and splice in a graft, or split the artery lengthwise and scrape out the bottleneck deposit. At a Chicago medical meeting last week, specialists were speculating on what seemed only a possibility-that a similar technique could be used to scrape out the coronary arteries in case of shutdowns in the heart (coronary thrombosis or occlusion). Whereupon Philadelphia's famed Heart Surgeon Charles P. Bailey rose to report, in effect: "I have just done...