Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whittier, Calif., even gives a free Mustang to buyers who make a 20% down payment. Still, a few builders are thriving. With ample lines of mortgage credit, Long Island-based William J.L. itt expects a 20% increase in sales (to $89 million) and profits, has just announced plans to expand into the Chicago area...
...commercial banks and life-insurance companies. U.S. Plywood, for example, is trying to enlist other big firms in a plan to form a corporation to provide the top 15% of 90% -mortgageloans, thus enabling conventional lenders to stretch their funds further. Last week N.A.H.B. urged the Government to expand the Federal National Mortgage Association, now confined by law to the purchase of FHA and VA loans, into a facility dealing with non-Government mortgages as well. Housing & Urban Development Secretary Robert C. Weaver went so far as to suggest that the whole cumbersome system of home buying and financing needs...
...long as you have a policy that's firm and forthright and steadfast against Communist aggression, we'll support you. We don't feel that we in the legislative branch in the minority party should determine strategy or tactics. I have many questions as to the need to expand our ground force commitments, especially when we have not used our air and naval superiority as adequately as I think we should. But the over-all position of strength has been good...
...completed. The usual technique is to haul them out, secure them on cradles and cover them with canvas. The method is timehonored, but in many ways unsatisfactory. In the first Place, wooden hulls tend to "come and go"' that is, the timbers shrink in the dry winter air, expand when put back in the water. As a result, hulls can warp, fittings are sometimes sheared. Secondly, the cradle in which a boat rests may not fit properly and thet boat will tend to "hog," that is, sag at both bow and stem...
...White House wanted a Comptroller who would carry on Saxon's expansionist policies but consolidate more than innovate. Camp promises "no drastic changes" immediately, but expects to push training programs for bank examiners, expand automation in banking, strengthen the supervision of foreign banks, and continue Saxon's chartering and merger designs, though at a reduced clip. Merely to digest what Saxon bit off will keep Camp fully occupied. His office is involved in six antitrust suits concerning bank mergers. The trend in the courts so far has been to support the Comptroller against the Attorney General, ruling...