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...could support a new bank, then raise the money for it. Businessmen often collect enough by passing the hat among themselves, and sometimes they can get started on a small stake by putting up their shares in the bank as collateral for low-interest loans from bigger banks. Less affluent organizers sell stock to the public. Often investors are let in only after they pledge to deposit $500 or $1,000 in the bank for every $100 worth of stock they...
...measure their landed wealth in Latin America, no class ever exhibited such fabled riches as Argentina's cattle barons. On the grassy pampas stretching south, west and north from Buenos Aires, the more affluent estanciero could once gallop for days without finding the end of his land. His animals numbered in the tens of thousands, and people across the world wistfully spoke of being "as rich as an Argentine...
Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society, may have at last explained himself. Plainly, his big-spending theories derive from a rebellion against his upbringing. For Galbraith, as he discloses in this amiable, slim volume of reminiscence, hails from a Scottish community in Ontario that seems today to have been a tightwad little island of frugality in a spendthrift continent, a budget balancer's paradise...
...affluent '60s, it almost seems appropriate that presidential candidates are themselves fairly well-heeled. Jack Kennedy, of course, was a millionaire several times over. So is Lyndon Johnson. It has been assumed for some time that Barry Goldwater, too, is a man of wealth, but the Goldwater family has never made public any information about it one way or the other. Last week TIME correspondents put together a balance sheet on Barry's finances. The answer is-yes, Goldwater is a millionaire, and then some...
Frozen Foods & Baby Sitters. Economists discern significant turns in the way the 92? goes out. Naturally, consumers still think first of food, clothing and shelter, but the manner in which they think of them has changed. As they grow more affluent, Americans are buying steadily bigger and better homes. They eat 117 Ibs. less food a year than their fathers, but are spending $232 a year more for it. This is not so much because prices have risen but because consumers nowadays show a weight-conscious preference for green vegetables over starchy potatoes and a gour met's delight...