Word: thirdly
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...domestic currency (which has not been redeemable in gold for 27 years) but to back the dollar in international settlements. Requiring a notes and reserve of 25% in gold against the notes and deposits of the Federal Reserve banks makes our gold supply for international payments only about one-third of our total gold holdings. Nearly $12 billion worth is set aside as a reserve against something it cannot be used to redeem. Such requirements illogically make a country's domestic money supply a charge against its international reserves...
...Chicago Gaslight was so successful that Browne opened another club in Manhattan in 1956, a year and a half later opened a third in Washington. Membership in the three clubs is now more than 48,000, and altogether they are expected to gross about $4,000,000 this year, net their stockholders more than...
...burglars in this instance are as amiable a bunch of cabbages as ever put their heads together. One (Renato Salvatori) is a successful baby-carriage thief. Another (Carlo Pisacane) is an old and toothless messenger boy. The third (Marcello Mastroianni) is a no-talent photographer, the fourth (Tiberio Murgia) a fiery Sicilian who thinks that everybody is trying to seduce his unmarried sister (Claudia Cardinale), the fifth (Vittorio Gassman) a preliminary bum who never hits anything but the canvas. Only the sixth (Toto), a renowned but senile safecracker, has any previous criminal experience, and when he sees the quality...
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Opening as the new Prime Minister utters his first statement to Commons-"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"-the third episode portrays the retreat through Western Europe and the Dunkirk evacuation...
Wait & See. The next warming bit of news amid the chill was a rise in construction contracts awarded in October (see below). They topped the year before by 6%, the third monthly rise in a row, and set a new record for that month. Housing starts in October rose from September to 109,900, although they continued to trail last year. Said George Cline Smith, vice president and chief economist of F. W. Dodge Corp.: "This activity will help to ensure that the current business dip will be quite mild and of short duration, since construction is the nation...