Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heckling of bigots is the best sport this earth affords. . . . And it is an advantage to a man of intellectual choler to have ... a weekly oblong where he can divest himself of the indignation occasioned by the antics of his brother-imbeciles. But all this, I yield, and gladly. For my column has been a failure...
...letting U.S. bond prices drop, Federal Reserve raised the yield on them slightly. Since Government bonds are the biggest factor in setting interest rates on all forms of business loans, Federal Reserve's action will tend to force up all interest rates. This was a gesture to those who have complained that its failure to use all its powers to curb credit is letting the boom get out of hand. Credit would not be tightened much by the move, but it was a starter...
...James's Place. As overhead is low, the seven partners make a gross profit of over ?100,000 on an annual gross of ?1,000,000. British stocks in public companies usually pay no more than 6%. But Christie shares, all held by the partners, are estimated to yield 200% a year...
...anxious months, farmers had feared that the winter wheat crop would be close to a failure. Now the rains and snow of the last two weeks had changed all that. The 1948 yield would not come up to 1947's alltime record, but there was good reason to hope that about 90% of winter wheat acreage would at least be seeded. More than anybody else. Kansas farmers hoped for a white Christmas...
Last week, the first two records, which include Yield Not to Temptation and I'm So Glad Jesus Lifted Me, were sellouts...