Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reported that this is Cuppy's major work--the publishers obviously presuming that writers of Cuppy's ilk have such things--and that he had been laboring on it for sixteen years. If this is the case, one must feel very sorry for Will Cuppy. He amassed a marvelous amount of information on his subjects and their relatives, but he has put it to no good...
...fast (up $4 billion throughout the nation or nearly 10% since the start of the Korean war). To slow the rise, FRB last week was considering an order to boost the total reserve requirements of its member banks closer to the limit under present law, thus reduce the amount of money banks have for lending. If prices continued to go up, FRB was prepared to ask Congress for power to raise reserves still further...
...absorb most of the new low-interest notes itself, in order to keep an orderly market. By so doing, FRB might well have offset the higher interest rates that it had imposed; in buying most of the Treasury's huge issue, FRB had increased the amount of money available for loans to its member banks. If the banks took advantage of this, commercial loans, in the end, might rise even more. In short, before FRB could make its sensible anti-inflationary policy effective, it had to have a showdown with Snyder...
...spite of their locker-bulging growth, frozen-food companies still have plenty of room in which to expand. Only 13.4% of U.S. families now drink frozen orange juice regularly; frozen vegetables amount to only a fraction of the total market. Optimistic frozen-food men think that if grocers would increase their freezer space they could "just about kill the fresh vegetable market...
...prevent overcrowding, a quota system would probably have to be set up so that an equal number were allowed to go to the Houses as went to the Harkness Commons. The only complaint voiced so far about the plan is the amount of extra accounting involved, but as all dining halls are run by a central University department, this objection is not strong enough to block the program...