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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the Store. Why the rapid growth? One major reason, says Arthur Decio, 38, founder, chairman and president of Skyline Corp., of Elkhart, Ind., is that "some years ago, builders just decided to forget about low-income groups. This was our opportunity, and we are trying to make the most of it." Last year Decio's Skyline sold about 30,000 mobile homes and 12,000 travel trailers, more than any other U.S. firm. For the company's fiscal year, which ended May 31, it earned almost $9,000,000 on sales of $180 million, a jump...
...couches, beds, carpeting, and even pictures on the plywood interior walls. A 60-ft. by 12-ft. model, which usually includes a kitchen, living room, two bedrooms and bath, can cost as little as $4,000, though most are somewhat more. Two units, bolted together on the site to make a 60-ft. by 24-ft., three-bedroom home, usually go for $10,000 to $15,000. Sales are principally to retired people, bachelors and newlyweds...
Mount Newman mine, which is 60% Australian owned. Under his feet was Australia's largest known iron-ore deposit, an estimated 1 billion tons, enough to make about 563 million tons of steel, or almost as much as the entire world produced last year...
...agreement on the mines was a political triumph for Frei, whose shaky Christian "Democrat party must face a rising leftist challenge in the 1970 elections. But Anaconda stock dropped to a new low for the year, and company executives said that they did not know how Anaconda would make up its Chilean losses...
...July, Spender had arrived in Prague to make contact with Czech hippies who misspelled peace slogans on the sidewalk: MOR I AQCUINT MY DOG LESS I LIK MY MAN. The kindly Spender could not resist subverting their English to read: "The better I know my dog the more I love...