Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the phone, through the mails, in ads and commercials comes a barrage of invitations to join the national sweepstakes; housewives do not just shop any more, they take chances on a freight car full of oranges, or a new convertible stuffed with $27,000 in cash. This sort of thing may not be real gambling, but it does contribute to a gambling atmosphere. Says one interested witness, the Nevada Gaming Control Board's Wayne Pearson: "Statistically, gambling is the normal thing. It's the non-gambler who is abnormal in American society...
...that it was elephant meat." No mere prankish host, Patrick Hemingway, 39, Papa's second son and a trainer of game wardens at Tanzania's College of African Wildlife Management, disclosed that he is trying all sorts of canape capers, hopes to thin overproductive herds and raise cash for African wildlife conservation by exporting canned game. "There is a potential market in America for the novelty alone," said Pat. As a matter of fact, he added, "we are informed that tinned tiger meat is now available in some American supermarkets...
...merely imitated the music that the Negro blues merchants had been performing with more style, heart and verve for decades. Now U.S. audiences have belatedly discovered singers like Dionne, Aretha Franklin and Lou Rawls and hoisted them to the top of the bestseller charts. The trade Journal Cash Box, in fact, named Dionne the No. 2 pop singer of 1966 (No. 1: Petula Clark), and currently her recording of Alfie is outselling the versions of 40 other singers...
...inventory liquidation. They figure that the economy has lost too much momentum to rebound strongly any time soon. Many other economists consider that the consumers' renewed appetite could turn things around quite quickly. So far this year, consumers have been paying off old bills and pouring their spare cash into savings at a record rate. One evidence: last week's Federal Reserve Board report that consumer installment credit rose only $193 million in May, the smallest increase in five years. But that could swiftly be changed by the kind of spending reported in recent weeks, which could send...
...coalition government. The Social Democratic members of his Cabinet, and some of his own Christian Democrats as well, bitterly opposed the tax increases and welfare cuts. But some thing had to be done about government spending. Over the years, when rapid economic growth promised to produce enough cash to meet almost any demand on the federal treasury, Germany built up an ever more costly welfare system, propped up its inefficient agriculture and high-cost coal mines with vast subsidies. That spending spree, matched by consumers and fueled by galloping wage increases, kept prices moving steeply upward. When the alarmed Bundesbank...