Word: willful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The U.S. Treasury Department, which has had trouble raising the cash it needs, last week found a way to tap some new money. It issued $2 billion in four-year, ten-month notes at an interest rate of 5%, the highest since the tight-money days of 1929. The rate...
The $4 billion is needed, in spite of the prospective balance of the budget, to pay the Treasury's bills until tax collections pick up early next year. The Department also expects to raise another $2 billion or $3 billion before January, but does not know at what rate...
R Renault's Caravelle, a snub-nosed, semi-sports car with a new four-cylinder, rear-mounted 40-h.p. engine. Caravelle has a top speed of 90 m.p.h., will cost $2,500 when it is sold in the U.S. next spring.
Prescriptions & Precedents. The judge's own prescription is much easier to swallow. Voting rights for some 43 million shares of G.M. stock held by the Du Pont company would pass to Du Pont shareholders on a pro rata basis (about 1⅓G.M. votes for each share of Du...
Under the glass dome of Paris' Grand Palais last week, 830 auto and equipment makers gathered for the 46th Paris Automobile Salon, Europe's most important auto show. So eager were Frenchmen to see the new cars that Paris hotels were booked solid weeks in advance. What they...