Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reluctant to support it (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The Arabs, who have stridently defied the U.N. plan ever since it was voted, last week repeated a familiar boast. Said the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine (which speaks for the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem) : Palestine Arabs will "never submit or yield to any power going to Palestine to enforce partition...
...benefits as well. As last year's evil winds from Siberia had helped the Kremlin's cause by promoting misery and despair, so this year's Atlantic zephyrs favored European recovery. France's wheat crop promised to more than double last year's meager yield of 3.5 million tons. French hydroelectric power was more abundant than at any time since the end of the war. Almost everywhere coal rations were proving adequate, and coal black marketeers were going broke...
...natural level proved to be several steps lower: 3% bonds of 1966 (callable in 1961), for which the Bank had been paying 104½ to yield 2.60% steadied at 102 for a yield of 2.82%. Since government bonds are the backbone of much of the banks' credit, this meant that the price of money had gone up about one-fourth of 1%. In the long run, dearer money tightens credit and cheapens goods. But it would still be a long time before the Bank of Canada's tinkering with the price of bonds affected the price of cabbage...
...convinced that freedom is "an ideal which can only be experienced in the recesses of the mind . . . in the silence of the heart. . . . The only way to discover absolute freedom is to become a prisoner. Yield the whole of yourself to something that will circumscribe your life. Then you'll discover freedom. Moral, spiritual, physical...
Rate-Boost. U.S. railroads, out for higher rates all around, got a sop from the ICC. It granted the roads a 25% temporary increase in mail rates. The increase, estimated to yield the railroads more than $32,000,000 a year, will remain in effect until ICC acts on their request for a permanent 45% hike in mail...