Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says Wayne Costley. "I'm still in my 30s, but I don't have the freedom to enjoy these years. There's no boat, there are no trips. I work hard, but it amounts to Nancy's going on vacation with the kids once in four years...
Tighter money, the tax fight and the mere talk of controls made investors highly nervous about the future. On the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones industrial average fell four days out of five last week. Altogether, it declined 30 points, to 895. In four weeks, the average has fallen 72 points, or 7%, and is now at its lowest level since last August. All the signals from Wall Street and Washington say that more strain, sacrifice and hard decisions lie ahead for the economy...
...part-time religion teacher and Little League batting coach, is anything but extravagant. She asks her butcher to trim fat off meats so that she will not have to pay for it. Still, she spends $85 a week for food and other household items, or twice as much as four years ago. The Costleys not long ago added a porch, patio and basketball court to their ten-room, $46,000 house, at a cost of $4,200, or $1,200 more than they would have paid in 1967. "But I still don't have any dining-room chairs," says...
...family of Geneva, 111.-Judy, 27, Lester Jr., 28, and two sons aged nine weeks and 20 months-spends its income of about $16,000 on things that older people might consider luxuries but that the Munsons regard as necessities. They have greatly increased their living standards in the four years since they married. Munson is an associate in his father's law firm, and last September the family moved from a Chicago apartment to a $32,500 house in the exurbs...
...Munson protests the rising cost of plastic baby pants (69? a pair v. 29? less than two years ago) and of teen-agers who come in as "mother's helpers" four mornings a week (they now charge $1.25 an hour, up from 75? a year ago). She has furnished the house with used pieces rather than new furniture. She thought of economizing by making her own clothes, but concluded that there would be no saving "because the price of fabric has skyrocketed. To make an average dress, including lining, costs...