Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already had ordered Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman to establish a Rural Community Development Service within the Department of Agriculture to assist other federal agencies in extending their various services to rural areas. As for Congress, Johnson recommended that it enact legislation to equalize the availability of home-mortgage credit in urban and rural areas. He also asked Congress to raise the limits on the Department of Agriculture's loan-insurance program, which insures farm-ownership loans as well as rural-community improvement loans. "We have the opportunity now to provide the means by which people in rural towns...
...honeymoon is over," said Home, as he took the floor to blast Labor for raising taxes, strangling credit and threatening to cancel the British aircraft industry's multimillion-dollar project for the supersonic Concord airliner. Home could hardly be heard. For as he began to speak the House dissolved into a raging bedlam of angry partisans, bellowing insults at one another, shaking fists, waving sheaves of papers in the turbulent air. Amid repeated pleas for order, Sir Alec managed to charge that the Labor government had gone back on its campaign promises to revitalize Britain, turned instead to "panic...
...talked longingly about a title fight with Clay and another shot at Liston, and chided sportswriters who predicted that Chuvalo would put him down as soon as he tapped him on his china chin. "I proved that I could take a punch much better than you gentlemen gave me credit for," he said. "I would say that I am deserving of a chance to fight Cassius Clay for the heavyweight title. And if I didn't feel that I could win it, I wouldn't be fighting...
...title of the program was changed to "independent study for ungraded credit," with the idea that students were no longer being permitted merely to drop a course, but to take advantage of the chance to study with a Faculty member...
Marion Sadler pioneered credit-card flights after noting that only 2% of all U.S. airlines' business came from their original "go now, pay later" plans. He figured that broadening into the mass card market could increase the lines' revenues by $250 million yearly. American Express then surveyed its card holders, concluded that almost half of them who had not traveled abroad in the past year would be interested in making the trip if they could charge it. Amexco, which got airborne in May, now permits cardholders to pay for flights over a period of twelve months, charges them...