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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...
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...
trend that favored costlier issues...
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...