Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...badly hit by the excise. It gets chief blame for the fact that more than 100 leather and luggage manufacturers have gone out of business since 1947 and that the fur industry has suffered a drop in union workers from 13,000 to 7,000 since 1946. Businessmen also complain that collecting the taxes requires extra time and money for which they are not reimbursed: the expense can run from $1 a day for small retailers to the $5,000,000 that American Telephone & Telegraph pays out in collection costs for every $500 million it collects...
Ricksha Opulence. The prices were something else to talk about: $28 a day for a cramped hotel room overlooking a garage, sans television, radio, air conditioning or carpet; $8 minimum per person in nightclubs with two-bit floor shows. Atlantic Citians, for their part, complained just as bitterly that the delegates were small tippers, slow spenders and big gripers. They had some reason to complain. Atlantic City had paid the Democratic Party $625,000 to hold its hoedown there...
...Silver Platter. All too frequently, complain restaurant owners, guests use doggie bags to haul off pilfered ashtrays, pepper mills, and silverware. A waiter in a smart West Coast spot got suspicious when a svelte woman customer actually demanded a doggie bag before taking a single bite of the sizzling steak he had just set before her. When he inquired discreetly if she were feeling unwell, she explained that her girdle was killing her; after a visit to the ladies' room, she returned to polish off the steak, her girdle doggie-bagged under her chair...
...Food and Drug Administration broader powers to police the research, manufacture and testing of drugs. Previously, drug companies were not required to consult the FDA on a new drug until they were ready for final market clearance. Now the FDA supervises every step of testing, and the companies complain that it costs extra time and money to get a drug approved...
...small firms, Northwestern Steel and Wire of Sterling, III., is feeling a profit pinch because scrap prices have jumped sharply in the past few months. A surge of imports of barbed wire and nails has hurt Peoria's Keystone Steel, which specializes in those products. Some small steelmen complain that they have difficulty borrowing to expand and modernize, since bankers tend to favor the larger firms. But the small ones often manage to be more daring than the conservative giants, sometimes lead in technical innovation. The first basic oxygen steel furnace in the U.S., in fact, was introduced...