Word: june
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loans, and the U.S. Government lends that firm its credit-guarantees its loans-the firm has been bailed out as completely and as precisely as though the Government had given it the cash. Mr. Willis Hawkins, president of Lockheed-California, who recently held otherwise in your Letters column [June 27], should know this...
...were hoping that the baking temperatures would bake a bit longer. With thermometer readings edging up into triple figures in many parts of the nation, heat-weary Americans rushed in the largest numbers in years to buy air conditioners. In New York and Chicago, sales mounted to double the June rate. On one sizzling day in St. Louis, a Carrier dealer sold out an entire shipment of 300 units before noon...
Impulse Purchase. Actually, business was starting to rebound even before July. In June sales were 16% above year-ago levels, and July's heat drove even more buyers into appliance stores. "It's an impulse item," explains Nicholas F. Tralongo, an appliance-industry analyst at Manhattan's Blyth Eastman Dillon & Co. "You have a bad week, and you rush...
...first quarter. What happened? Business expanded at a robust rate. In the second quarter, when President Carter dropped his $50 tax rebate stimulus proposal, some seers again lowered their sights-and again were proved wrong. Last week the Commerce Department reported that in the three months ending in June, the nation's real gross national product grew at a healthy annual rate of 6.4%. That compares favorably with the first quarter's growth, which last week was revised upward from...
...discount passengers all the economy-class amenities, perhaps at a small surcharge over the Skytrain price for some of them. Also, both American carriers land at Lon don's convenient Heathrow Airport; Laker's planes use Stansted Airport, 45 miles from the city. During peak sea son (June 1-Sept. 14), Skytrain will fly eleven times weekly-and for the remainder of the year only once a day-but Pan Am and TWA have nearly twice as many daily flights. As with Skytrain, discount fares on the two American carriers will offer an unlimited length of stay before...