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...COSTLIER AIR TRAVEL is in the wind. American Airlines, nation's biggest, has petitioned CAB to end first-class roundtrip discounts, reduce family-plan discounts from 50% to 33⅓% effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Dearsighted. In Cardiff, Wales, after 29 years of marriage and five children, Alice John got a divorce because her husband always made her sit in the cheap seats in the cinema while he took his ease in the costlier ones toward the rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 21, 1958 | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

trend that favored costlier issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, may 26, 1958 | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Silver Threads Among the Grey | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME CLOCK | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

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