Word: bond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that is, deposits of $2,500 or more pledged for at least nine months-and other large banks quickly followed suit. Sales finance companies also increased their interest charges to 5%. The Veterans Administration hiked its interest on G.I. mortgages from 5¼% to 5½% . Tax-free municipal bond yields rose to a postwar high of 3.83%, causing dozens of cities, counties and school districts to postpone or cancel millions of dollars worth of bond issues. Another effect of the credit pinch: auto finance companies have become tougher in risking loans, which is one reason why auto sales...
...Batboom is V-RROOMing onto the retail stage just in the nick of time; after a $40 million splurge, the sale of James Bond 007 products is tailing off. Gimbels of Philadelphia, the first store to carry Batman T shirts, sold out its shipment of 360 in a day, ordered 2,400 more. Sales of all kinds of Batman merchandise would be still bigger except that manufacturers mistimed the impact, have fallen as far as six weeks behind in deliveries. "I've seen maybe 50 items in hand samples," complains Charles Lucas, Chicago-based buyer for 495 Walgreen drugstores...
Young can be painfully predictable in his speeches. While Julian Bond and Donald Duncan, the other two speakers at last week's forum, made a point of avoiding the usual moral and practical evaluations of American policy, Young acted as if he were still taking to the Cleveland City Club. "Historically, there is no North and South Vietnam," he told an audience which was already way ahead...
...Julian Bond, the SNCC worker who was refused his seat in the Georgia legislature because of his views on Vietnam, talked with quiet sincerity of American Negroes' opposition to "joining a white man's army to fight a white man's war. Why should we fight for a country that has never fought for us?" he asked...
Senator Stephen M. Young (D-Ohio), Julian Bond, Sgt. Don Duncan, and H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, will speak at a forum with members of SDS, PAX, and SNCC at 8:15 p.m. tonight in Jordan, Hall, Boston...