Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Betancourt is still firmly committed to socialism but will try to sell off or shut down the worst of the money losers. He also plans such overdue measures as building hospitals and schools (the country is 65% illiterate), which will strain even the oil-rich budget. The army still has tanks, and the Communists still could muster 80,000 well-organized rioters. But working for Romulo Betancourt are his honesty, his political savvy and his country's deep hunger for peace...
...helped Gross
engineer the shakedown.
...into difficulties with the haulers in his attempt to publish a new tabloid, the left-wing Compass. Referred to an ex-convict (bail jumping, dope peddling) named Irving Bitz, Thackrey paid Bitz $10.000-half what Bitz demanded-for a trouble-free contract with the Deliverers. After collecting the money, Bitz introduced Thackrey to Joseph Simons, then president of the Deliverers' union. The Compass died three years later, but it had no trouble with Simons' union...
Caravans & Color TV. Boatmen are happily convinced that they are just beginning to tap the potential market. Banks like to lend money for new boats (the repossession rate is practically nil) and wives who once turned querulous at their husbands' seasonal desertion plead for bigger, headier boats. Boat clubs blossom in landlocked regions. In Arizona, where the boating public numbered only about 3,000 five years ago, there are now more than 30,000-and many of them fan out from Phoenix as far as 280 miles to find water. There was scarcely a man-sized boat in Kansas...
...vicious circle," says Richard Shipman, throwing up his hands. "The farmers have no money, and to get a loan, the Government requires them to sow less-land. If they sow less land, there is nothing to sell! The only winners are the large plunderers...