Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have fared much better than those with no credit plans. "We're hurting and hurting bad," says Assistant Manager Robert Engler of a cash-only dime store on downtown Federal Street. But Bertram Lustig, owner of seven Youngstown shoe stores, says that "surprisingly, September was a pretty fair month. What saved us was credit. We've sort of become a bank...
Since early August, 2,855 Youngstown steelworkers and their families have gone on relief (average payment: $20 per month per person), but the strikers on relief, mostly Negroes and Puerto Ricans, make up only 9% of the city's 31,000 steelworkers. The others are scraping along on the savings that they hoarded up in anticipation of the strike and on the liberal credit granted by Youngstown's strike-seasoned merchants...
Even with skimping, and shoving big purchases off into the post-strike future, many strikers are running into debt. Steelworker John Novasich had some savings piled up when the strike started, but now he is a month behind on his mortgage payments, has yet to pay the doctor bill for the operation his wife underwent last June, and is wondering how he can scratch the $160 he still owes on his son's tuition at Youngstown University...
...should be "accompanied by the development of inspection and control." The West, accustomed to Russian doubletalk on disarmament and thoroughly unimpressed by Khrushchev's big U.N. propaganda pitch, took a hard look at this statement, got ready to find out, when the nuclear-test-ban talks resume next month in Geneva, if the Russians will take a more realistic position on inspection...
...Oregon, Beatie married hastily, was quickly divorced, then drifted to San Francisco and to the bottom of the ladder. He walked slowly, with a cane, and he found relief in cheap wine and whisky. He managed to eke out a living with occasional odd jobs and his $19-a-month Army pension. He kept to himself, lived and drank in a shack behind a waterfront store, did not fraternize with the run of Skid Row bums. Yet for some reason they liked him, and there was something in him that even they could admire...