Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months the FRB has raised the discount rate six times, boosted it to the highest level (3%) since 1933 only last fortnight. (Conversely, by lowering the discount rate, as Martin did in the 1954 recession, the FRB makes it less expensive to borrow money.) ¶ An even faster-acting weapon is the FRB's $23 billion portfolio of marketable Treasury securities. To nip expanding credit, the FRB sells securities through its Open Market Committee at competitive prices, thus sucks in funds from bank reserves. Since banks can lend up to $6 for every $1 in reserve, every dollar paid...
Because the hag type successfully uses sex as a weapon, they are "loathed by other women, who attribute all sorts of bad qualities to them." Moreover, "men loathe them . . . because they squash any talent the male partner may have." Yet "if they present themselves [as] helpless 'little girls.' men fall...
...producing the intercontinental (5,000 miles) ballistic missile and its smaller brother, the intermediate-range (1,500 miles) missile, has been tightly restricted. But last week the Air Force Association convention in New Orleans heard the most definitive report yet on which companies are developing components for the "ultimate weapon...
...merely say," Georgia's Dick Russell summed up the prospects for civil rights in the 85th, "that when such nefarious schemes as these are presented in the future-and we hear that they will be-there will be members of the Senate who will resort to every weapon at their command to prevent such proposals being imposed on the people...
Most everybody proclaims taciturn Glenn a local hero except his wife (Jeanne Crain), who mutters darkly of Glenn's troubled past (seems his father was shot by a fast gun) and the evils of gunslinging. Next day Glenn offers up his weapon on the church altar, explaining that he must skip town because "trouble collects around a fast gun." Too late. Enter bellicose Brod, hankering to drill Glenn. As the congregation sings Holy, Holy, Holy, Glenn dutifully straps on his holster for the showdown. As Miss Crain mumbles after the fireworks, "I guess that takes care of everything...