Word: phila
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...renewed willingness to incur debt-or perhaps the real sequence went the other way around. In any case, installment debt rose 10% in 1976, and Salomon Brothers, a leading Wall Street investment house, predicts that it will shoot up 12% this year. Says Lacy Hunt, a vice president at Phila delphia's Fidelity Bank: "The ability of the consumer to take on more debt will be the underpinning of the economy, in 1977. This year is the year of consumer credit...
...Seattle Pilots b. Minneapolis c. Phila. d. Phila. e. Wash. Senators...
...homicide rate higher than that of New York City," it is gratuitous and unfair to cite New York for that tragic comparison. The fact is that among the nation's major cities, Detroit, Washington, St. Louis, New Orleans, Cleveland, Baltimore, Chicago, Memphis, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and Phila delphia all have 1973 homicide rates higher than New York...
...come to this: last week a student organist in Phila delphia refused to play a long-honored hymn that most Protestants have never given second thought to: On ward, Christian Soldiers...