Word: junes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...digit inflation gripped the economy so relentlessly for a full half year. But no sooner had Jimmy Carter named his new economic team of Treasury Secretary G. William Miller and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker than the grim news was out: living costs had spurted up yet again in June, and at just about the same breathless clip at which they have been rising since January...
...June increase in the Consumer Price Index was a shade smaller than the May rise, but it was still a full 1%, enough to push inflation for the first half of 1979 to a compound annual rate of 13.2%, more than twice the pace that prevailed when Carter was elected in November...
Much of the June rise was fueled by the continuing surge in oil prices; this helped push up transportation costs during the month at an annual rate of more than 22%, largely because of the rocketing cost of gasoline, which soared at a rate of 92% a year. By contrast, clothing costs declined slightly, while food, the other big-ticket item in the family budget, rose by only 0.2% for the month. Testifying before Congress's Joint Economic Committee last week, Alfred Kahn, the White House's chief inflation fighter, argued that if it were...
...Continental Mark V weighed a defiant 4,779 lbs., was more than 19 ft. long and got 12 m.p.g. Now Ford, too, has yielded. The final Mark V, last of Detroit's gas-gulping monarchs, came off the line at the company's Wixom, Mich., plant on June 8. Last week the plant turned out its successor, the Mark VI. It is 14 in. shorter, 800 lbs. lighter, gets 14 m.p.g., and is somewhat boxier in shape. Yet all is not lost for big-car lovers. Beside the mite-size models filling the highways today, even the down...
...trip for everybody," claims Stripper Garrett, who makes $600 a week, excluding the tips that women stuff into his G string. "It's hard later to put yourself back in the world with everyone else." There is, of course, the occasional occupational hazard: late last June, for example, Sexy Rexy, one of Freddy's Playboys, moved so well that an excited patron ripped off his bikini. An on-duty policewoman happened to be in the audience, and Rexy was subsequently arrested for indecent exposure and the club fined for not having an entertainment license. Though booked elsewhere, Fast...