Word: granting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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CREDIT CARDS are spreading to dime stores. S. S. Kresge Co., the third biggest chain (after Woolworth, W. T. Grant), will offer charge plates in 68 Michigan area stores. Woolworth is also testing charge plates; Grant has introduced them in all its stores...
Nevertheless, a loud and powerful group of Congressmen, including Illinois Senator Paul Douglas and Texas Congressman Wright Patman, refuses to grant the Treasury any relief, crying that interest rates are already too high. "The only inflation we have today," says Patman, with more emotion than economic reason (see State of Business), "is inflation caused by high interest." The critics blame the Treasury for the rising cost of servicing the nation's debt, argue that any further boost in interest rates would cost the taxpayers additional billions. They argue that if the Treasury wants to sell long-term bonds...
Vanderbilt's donation, and a $200,000 grant from the Markle Foundation, have brought the library campaign to within $3 million of its goal. Miss Sandra Countway donated $3.5 million last year to launch the drive for the medical library...
...find ways to do the job right. The Pennsylvania and Reading railroads and the city of Philadelphia are cooperating in "Operation Northwest," in which the railroads have stepped up service and lowered fares, and issue transfers for the city's transit system in return for a $320,000 grant to help cover extra costs. The plan has not cut commuter losses, but it has proved that the commuter can be won away from the auto: the Pennsy's passenger load has jumped 17%, the Reading...
North by Northwest. Superb Hitchcock-and-bullets, with an enduringly spotless Cary Grant and a refreshingly unzippered Eva Marie Saint, involving foreign agents who are brash enough to think they can fill Grant's tomb...