Word: whats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the Fed's decision to follow the interest market up another half notch was concern over the ballooning of commercial loans, which have continued to rise despite downturns in loan requirements in industries affected by the steel strike. During the strike's early stages, the Fed delayed...
They based their forecast on the fact that each postwar cycle has had two or three years of expansion, followed by one or two years of contraction. The current boom got under way 17 months ago, and the key indicators are cycling ahead of schedule. Manufacturers' new orders snapped...
Morgan's Bark. Clark, born on Staten Island, got into money finding at 16, when he persuaded a Brooklyn builder to give him an exclusive contract to obtain 5% mortgaging on 200 houses. With his $25,000 fee, he opened an office to hunt up more business. Learning that...
A critic once asked a lady what was the best way of "reaching" Marianne Moore. He was speaking of her poetry, but this was the deadpan reply: "Take the Sixth Avenue Independent Subway at 47th Street, the D train to Borough
Her contemporary, T. S. Eliot, has said that her work is "part of the small body of durable poetry written in our time." But what fine poet other than Marianne Moore would dare conduct a love affair with the "Brooklyn'' (not the Los Angeles-no, never) Dodgers in...