Word: help
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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What should the Government do to help check the new inflation? The Federal Reserve Board was for raising interest rates to tighten credit. The other great fiscal arm of the Government, the Treasury, thought that this would be a treacherous stab in the back. As the nation's biggest borrower, it wanted cheap money and easy credit to keep down the cost of interest on the $257 billion national debt...
...help sell the Street, Schram stumped the U.S. His plain, corn-fed manner convinced many a U.S. citizen that the stock market was a good place to invest money. Schram campaigned to cut the tax on odd-lot transactions (mainly for the benefit of small investors), helped persuade Congress to write a more liberal capital-gains...
...Australia's shopping list are: 1) tractors and farm machinery to help boost the nation's agricultural output, 2) bulldozers and other heavy earth-moving equipment for power projects, to increase generating capacity from the present 2,100,000 kilowatts to 5,600,000 kilowatts in 1958, 3) diesel-electric locomotives, 4) heavy excavators, stripping shovels and other mechanized mining equipment, to raise the production of steel, building materials and coal. To get more workers, Australia, which is now squeezed by a manpower shortage, is opening her gates to 200,000 immigrants a year...
...story of a raffish family's efforts to hornswoggle an insurance company out of $20,000 in death benefits, gives Actor David Wayne his first chance to cut loose with the comic talent he displayed in Broadway's Finian's Rainbow and Mister Roberts. With his help, Writer-Director Claude Binyon squeezes enough chuckles out of a series of corpses to make up for a romantic subplot that is dead on its feet...
Sunset Boulevard. How a faded movie star (Gloria Swanson) attempts a comeback with the help of her kept man (William Holden); a sardonic commentary on Hollywood's manners & morals (TIME...