Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month for the direct telephone line to Telecredit, plus 20? each for every inquiry above 150. So far, 400 Los Angeles companies have signed up, including Sears, Montgomery Ward, the May Co., and almost all major supermarket chains in the area. Katz and Goldman expect to expand into San Francisco and San Diego this year, then reach eastward. One of their sales points: the number of bad checks passed in Los Angeles declined almost...
...Cold War: "The real problem is the Soviet desire to expand their power and influence. If Mr. Khrushchev would concern himself with the real interests of the people of the Soviet Union, that they have a higher standard of living, to protect his own security, there is no real reason why the United States and the Soviet Union should not be able to live in peace...
...manes, a trio of hip-high horses arrived at Idlewild Airport from Argentina. They were bound for the McLean, Va.. home of Bobby and Ethel Kennedy as a Christmas surprise for their seven children and Ethel's relatives. Hearing about the horses, and feeling an urge to expand the Kennedy menagerie (present occupants: four dogs, 20 rabbits, one guinea pig, one donkey), Ethel shot off an order to Argentine Breeder Julio Falabella. who claims that his herd of 350 is unique. Sturdy enough to saddle up and ride, the midget horses have other endearing qualities that may make...
...might sigh along with Mark Twain: "I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." It was that way in nearly all the world's industrialized nations?a year of growth but not of boom. Western European businessmen, lately accustomed to seeing their economies expand by more than 7% a year, had to content themselves with growth rates that ran as low as 4%. Japan's tycoons cried recession because their nation's expansion rate sank from a spectacular 19% in 1961 to "only" 5% in 1962. But the only real sick man of the free...
Other businessmen, however, see no dynamic new force on the horizon likely to send the well-fed, well-housed, abundantly equipped U.S. into a new boom. Instead, some fear that the U.S. may have to rely for domestic growth chiefly on its normal population increase?which seems to expand the economy at a disappointingly modest 3% a year. Faced with this prospect, which the economists have dourly christened "high-level stagnation." U.S. businessmen in 1962 increasingly looked abroad to markets where millions for the first time had money to spend for much beyond the bare necessities. ''When the aluminum market...