Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wichita's Payne Ratner, 61, onetime Republican Governor of Kansas now in trouble with the McClellan committee (TIME, Aug. 25), used his political contacts with considerable skill to head off a House Labor Subcommittee investigation of Jimmy Hoffa...
After seven weeks of scholarly consultation at Geneva, U.S., British, Russian, Polish and other scientists issued definite recommendations for a nearly trickproof control system (TIME, Aug. 25). There were no minority reports, no signs of maneuvering for political advantage. Both sides agreed that a proper system of fewer than 200 stations would detect with high accuracy even small explosions anywhere on earth...
...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall, ducking m and out of the soup in Director Vincente Minnelli's lighthearted peek at Mayfair manners and amorals (TIME, Aug...
...Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's film about a Southern chain-gang escape, with drama and photography that are black and white, and characterizations that are expertly blended shades of grey; with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier (TIME, Aug...
With such proof of recovery before it, the FRB last week continued tightening credit, gave the New York, Cleveland, Richmond and St. Louis Federal Reserve Banks permission to up the discount rate from 1¼% to 2%, continuing the upward move initiated by the San Francisco Reserve Bank (TIME, Aug. 25). The earlier rises brought no change in the prime rate (i.e., the interest charged customers with blue-chip credit), which is set by New York banks that make 20% of bank loans to business. But as soon as the New York Federal Reserve Bank raised its discount rate...