Word: dol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have further diminished public trust in the competence of military leadership. Dr. Daniel Fink, a former Pentagon engineer, who has frequently debated on the pro side of ABM, worries about "the belief that these decisions are made by fat, cigar-chewing generals laughing among themselves about billions of dol lars and megadeaths...
Deeper down, inflation caused some dangerous distortions in the U.S. economy. Consumers and businessmen rushed to borrow, spend and invest, hustling to convert their cash into goods or services before the value of the dol lar declined still further. All this only stoked inflation, and led to an abnormally steep demand that may cause an abrupt contraction on some less lucky tomorrow. As usual, some of the worst victims of inflation were the poor, who had to pay more for everything and lacked either the resources or the sophistication to invest in property or paper with a rising value...
...million a year urging Americans to savor Brach candy, Gulden's Mustard and Chef Boy-ar-Dee foods, to rub on Meet and Aero Shave, to wash their clothes with Woolite, to battle their bugs with Black Flag, to treat their ills with Dristan, Anacin and Bi-So-Dol, to keep their cool with Equanil? Even the most ardent shoppers might be hard put to answer because for all the effort it puts into making household names of its more than 90 brands, American Home Products Corp. cares little about plugging its own corporate identity...
...loan as well. The House strengthened it by requiring department stores and mail-order houses that offer "revolving credit" to list the interest charges as 18% a year instead of the more innocuous-looking 1½% a month. Mortgages were also affected; lenders will now have to specify, in dol lars and cents, how much such long-term charges as interest will cost the buyer (a 25-year, 6% mortgage on a $20,000 house, for example, would cost him $18,391 in interest...
...wait anxiously for the traditional spring pickup in sales, Detroit's automakers are predicting a 1968 out put of up to 9.3 million cars, which would make the model-year one of the industry's best. But auto salesmen, who are still in the midst of winter dol drums, are beginning to wonder. As a result of last year's 45-day strike, Ford production is still catching up, and sales are off 40% for the model-year thus far. General Motors is down 1% from last year in spite of such hot numbers as the Pontiac...