Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Word of the plan's success spread so fast that 25 states, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and transportation men from Canada, France and England have already called to request details about California's caravans. "I'm really pleased this idea works," says Highway Patrol Inspector Walter Pudinsky, who thought up the new scheme. "We're all sick and tired of arresting people...
...their court." But if the Democrats override the veto and enact their own program, the President will be able to claim that he at least prodded them into action. Said Ford: "If we hadn't been tough, we wouldn't have gotten this far this fast...
...When he was through, Meany had displayed his consummate mastery of the labor movement and strengthened his position as perhaps the most caustic and telling critic of President Ford's economic policies. Pointing a stubby finger of alarm, Meany warned that unless someone did something and did it fast, the American nation could once again experience what he referred to-and vividly remembered-as the "Great Depression...
Because that idle inventory cost Chrysler's dealers $2 million a week to finance, Townsend decided to reduce it fast-first by virtually stopping production, then by initiating the cash rebates on new-car sales.* Chrysler lost so much money in the last three months of 1974 because sales and production were running far under the company's breakeven level of some 275,000 cars per quarter (current quarterly production rate: about 140,000 cars). But the company's backlog of unsold cars is now gradually approaching a normal level of 80 days or so, which means...
...fast-growing South escaped many of the ill effects of past postwar recessions, but the current slump is so pervasive even that region is hurting. Unemployment in the six Southeastern states in December ran three-tenths of a point above the national average. In Georgia, officials of the state department of labor estimated that unemployment there had jumped from 9% for the month of January to 11% or 12% by last week. Unemployment lines in Georgia are much the same as elsewhere in the U.S. People who wish to collect unemployment compensation have to sign up at state offices...