Word: furse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> Greta Starks was 24 when she acquired a married admirer of 55 who became virtually her sole means of support. For five years, Greta's great and good friend in Detroit showered her with furs, furniture, a new car, a weekly allowance and cash enough to buy a house...
Awaiting his internship, Hammer felt the call to perform some international good deeds. He bought a surplus field-hospital unit, including ambulance, from the U.S. Government, took it to Russia with every intention of providing medical treatment for the peasants. But when he discovered the famine in the Volga region...
Costly Shows. Jan. 1, 1966 also brought some tax sweets along with the sour-at least in theory. In the second stage of a long-term Government rollback on excise taxes, cuts from .04% to 20% went into effect on items from stock transactions to club dues. The first cutback...
And More Credit. As consumer spending continues into 1966, only two small dim spots concern merchants. One is the effect of this month's $5.5 billion rise in social security taxes for medicare (offset in part by another $1.6 billion excise-tax reduction). The other is a rise in...
Lyndon Johnson came into the presidency worrying about the wisdom of large deficits and questioning the need for a tax cut, but he was convinced by the Keynesian economists around him, and hurried the measure through Congress. The quick success of the income-tax cuts prompted Congress to try a...