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...have dropped to 1.1% in January 1955 v. 1.7% three years ago. Bankers who felt that the loans were increasing too fast think that this type of credit is already tightening. VA loans are dropping below par value, thereby boosting interest rates, since banks and other holders can get rid of them only at a discount...
...food has caused the U.S. to impose strict import quotas on agricultural commodities, a policy which is not only condemned by foreign nations, but is opposed by the U.S. itself when other nations practice it. Furthermore, the U.S. angers its friends almost every time it tries to get rid of its surpluses abroad at competitive prices. Example: U.S. attempts to sell butter abroad, said Chairman William Marshall of New Zealand's Dairy Products Marketing Commission, constitute "pure and unadulterated dumping of surpluses" in violation of international trade agreements...
...pipe, taking it out of his mouth only to mutter: "Most embarrassing, most embarrassing." Attlee left it to his right-wing followers to tear Bevan down, and they did, though messily. "Why did you once take me for a walk down the corridor and say we must get rid of Mr. Attlee?" one woman M.P. demanded of Nye Bevan. "That's a wicked lie," Bevan shot back...
...basic non-tenet of the world organization is to rid the world of the unfavorable association nihilism has received through various political actions in the 1870's. We are firmly dedicated to the non-belief that if any philosophy has the opportunity of becoming the belief of the 20th century, it is nihilism...
Student-owned hearses of all ages and descriptions were leaving Cambridge last night after Cambridge Police Captain Patrick J. McCarthy announced a drive to rid the streets of the vehicles. McCarthy's campaign was prompted by complaints from Cambridge residents, who said that the hearses were "depressing...