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...ultimate salvation of the country club may well be the same thing that, makes supermarkets a multibillion-dollar business: mass appeal at mass prices. Unlike the old-fashioned clubs owned by members, a new class of club is starting up owned by businessmen, who frankly aim at big memberships as the road to survival. In Dallas, eight new clubs have opened since the prewar era, and most of them run one membership drive after another. Four more are being formed. In Denver, the Pinehurst Country Club will open next spring on 300 acres to cater to the new class...
...thing was made clear in the Minuteman announcement: the Air Force knows that the days are numbered for its vast, multibillion-dollar liquid-fuel ICBM program, which is in its test stages. What will be done with these missiles when, in the mid-1960s, they are obsolete...
...cure," declared Vice President Richard Nixon at a Republican Lincoln Day rally in Phoenix, Ariz. "The battle cry of the Administration's opponents is obviously going to be 'Depression is just around the corner.' Some are urging us to go back to the multibillion-dollar leaf-raking boondoggling which failed so miserably in the 1930s." If the Democrats are "betting on depression," said he, the Republicans are "betting on prosperity...
...gonna keep the boys in uniform after they've seen high-pay help-wanted ads? Ever since Korea, that has been the U.S. armed forces' multibillion-dollar-a-year question. Cooks, truck drivers, and professional privates re-enlist at a brisk rate, but such specialists as radar and missile technicians usually get out when their first hitches are up, taking along with them into better-paid civilian jobs the expensive training that the U.S. Government has given them...
...boss of the nation's multibillion dollar steel industry was "Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer. But Boss Sawyer was just singing the words & music composed by the Government's wage and price stabilizers. "I hope it won't be too long before I can turn [the mills] back," Sawyer told a television audience this week. But after talks between the steelmen and the C.I.O. steelworkers' union broke down again, Sawyer reluctantly announced that he was going to give the union at least part of the benefits (a 26.1? wage package plus the union shop) recommended...