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Word: willful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, the cost of consumer loans was sharply rising. In New York, First National City Bank posted a new schedule of charges keyed to the rising cost of money. A representative change: the buyer of a car hereafter will pay the equivalent of 7.8% interest for a bank loan instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Placing the Blame | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Miguel Antonio Enrique Francisco Estrada (John Saxon), a first-generation Puerto Rican-New Yorker, is just out of stir and determined to go straight; he is a solid, workmanlike thug, though, and the old gang wants him back. They tempt him with a sex moll (Linda Cristal), "just up from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

The President's hope is that the public will soon see that Congress did it no favor in trying to keep interest rates under the 4¼% ceiling, which now has turned out to be no ceiling at all but rather a prime cause of higher interest rates. Once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Placing the Blame | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Despite the enormous growth of giant corporations, which pessimists predict will kill off small companies, the U.S. now has a third more independent businesses than it had at the end of World War II. They are growing faster than the population; the ratio of business enterprises to the general population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Very Vital Statistics | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Grey Market. Across the nation last week as manufacturers scrambled for steel, there was a growing grey market, with prices of some steels up to $250 a ton, almost double the list price. Layoffs caused by lack of steel continued to mount. General Electric Co. began laying off 1,400...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Squeeze on the Nation | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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