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...company is now preparing Burke 's Distinguished Families of America. There'll be a volume for you: full of big spacecraft wallahs from Texas, moguls from Hollywoo -plus all their relatives, of course. And every mother's son of them a potential Burke's buyer. That ought to restore the balance of trade. Britain's all washed up, is it? We'll show the blighters where the sun never sets. Jeeves, another round...
HOUSING CREDIT. Aimed at spurring the sluggish housing industry, this provision will subsidize anyone who buys a previously unoccupied house or apartment between March 13 and Dec. 31. The buyer will be allowed to subtract from his 1975 tax bill 5% of the purchase price, up to $2,000. Construction of the house must have begun by last Tuesday. Though this provision may help reduce the backlog of 600,000 unsold new homes and condominiums, it could hinder the sales of older houses. Cost to the Treasury: $600 million...
...undoubtedly strangers to most people. It is possible that Notable American Women's value as a research aid will be supplanted initially by its value as a first introduction to these overlooked figures. Although the cost, even of the recently-published paperback edition, is prohibitive to the average book-buyer, book stores and librarians afford ample opportunity for opening one of the volumes, to whatever page; the experience is bound to be illuminating. "Notable" in fact is a broadly used term to describe these women. The grande dames of the suffrage and settlement house movements, the notorious popular figures such...
...rebates working? The automakers say that the $200 to $600 checks they have been offering to buyers of new cars since mid-January have saved the decline at the dealerships from turning into a disaster. Yet the 1975 models are still having a bumpy sales ride, to say the least. Buyer interest rose smartly in the last ten days of January, the first period in which all of the automakers had their rebate programs in effect. But then sales plunged again...
Next month Ford's Mercury division will introduce the Bobcat, a fancied-up, $3,000-plus version of the Pinto, as its entry in the small-car field. Ford has also come out with two trimmed-down models aimed at the standard-car buyer: the Mercedes-size Granada and Monarch, which are 26 in. shorter, 8 in. narrower and more than half a ton lighter than the standard-size sedan, but longer on mileage (between 18 and 26 m.p.g. on the highways...