Word: costlier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Millions of families with incomes not nicked by the recession were gripped by a mood of tight-fisted caution. Liquor dealers reported a drastic switch from costlier to cheaper brands. Chain-store sales were brisker than in booming early-1957 because many housewives were forgoing the comparative serenity of the corner delicatessen or grocery store and shopping in supermarkets to save pennies to put into savings accounts. In Chicago a young woman borrowed $500 from a downtown bank at 4½% interest, offering as collateral her $650 savings account drawing 2% interest. She just didn't want...
...Under plan, FHA would insure the top 20% of conventional mortgages, with no limits on interest rate or price of home. In current tight home-building market, first mortgage is usually limited to 50% or 60% of home's value, and buyer has to take out costlier second mortgage to get part of remaining 40% to 50%. But 20% FHA guarantee would allow buyer to get a 70% to 80% mortgage right away, eliminate need for a second mortgage in most cases...
...next step was clear. Then only 16, Kontiki strolled into a local ginmill one night and, in one of the haphazard contests that decide calypso rank, sang down the reigning monarch, one King Cobra. As King Cobra faded into oblivion, Kontiki rose, working his way up to better and costlier bars...
Portable Electric Typewriter. Smith-Corona put on sale the first production models of its new 18-lb. portable electric typewriter. Convenient for travelers, the portable is also aimed at bringing the uniform printing-press quality of costlier full-size electric models within reach of small business and professional men. Price...
...atomic-submarine power plant (about as much as a World War II light cruiser), $8,000,000 for an intercontinental B-52 jet bomber (as much as 42 World War II 6-175), $3 billion for an intercontinental missile program that will usher the U.S. into the costlier age of space...