Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Vote. On their side, the old Rhee supporters showed that they had yet to unlearn their old tricks. One wealthy ex-Liberal, running scared as an Independent, "loaned" teams of oxen to the farmers of his district, explaining: "If I am elected, you may keep them. But if I am defeated, I must take them back to pay off my creditors." Other candidates freely bought votes by folding money in campaign literature, and when the money dried up, by opening barrels of makkolli, one of the headiest of the home-brewed Korean rice wines...
...fresh impact of Asia. "Everything was so moving," recalls one officer. "The poverty, the filth, the sickness, the pressure of Communism." Soon the ship buzzed with a plan: send an Asian boy to college. The crew approved unanimously-as long as they could choose the lad personally and keep an eye on him in home port Pearl Harbor...
...juggling margins, the Fed tries to control speculative excesses by regulating the amount of credit flowing into the market. The Fed now believes that stock market credit is relatively stable at about $4.2 billion-and that a 70% margin is enough to keep it that way. Actually, this is only $165 million less credit than in October 1958, when the stock market and credit were soaring so high that the Fed raised the margin from 70% to 90%. And in April of last year, despite the increased margin, there was $550 million more credit outstanding on stocks than now. Thus...
...makes its reputation in the big leagues, its profits in the little leagues. The boom in junior and industrial baseball has pushed sales up 30% in the past ten years. H. & B. expects to be producing 5,000,000 bats by 1962 or 1963. Though the family-owned company keeps its profit figures to itself, they are hefty enough to keep a spacious box for Bud Hillerich at Churchill Downs, where he likes to get away from it all by sizing up thoroughbreds instead of sluggers...
LATE SUMMER BARGAINS in room air conditioners may be expected. Sales are lagging, as a mild summer and moderate humidity across most of U.S. keep buyers comfortably at home...