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Mass & Class. Price has a price for every pocketbook, ranging from two-bedroom houses for $5,500 to three-and four-bedroom "Custom" houses (see cut) for $8,000 to $30,000 (with Indiana lime stone walls optional). On every house, National nets an average $100-enough to make Jim Price a rich man. One hundred shares of National, purchased for $5,000 in 1940, would now total some 60,000 shares (through splits) and be worth more than...
...country at wildfire rate . . . through the feeding of raw garbage. [It] not only hit the large herds of the garbage-feeders but, because of its infectiousness, quarantines were called for that [also] stopped the shipping of grain-fed swine out of many areas. That affected the farmer's pocketbook. Without hesitation, the farmers turned on the legislators, and most . . . responded with a speed and unanimity . . . seldom witnessed." Laws forbidding the feeding of uncooked garbage to hogs are now on the statute books of 43 states...
...range plan for the U.S. to help develop other nations as prime coffee suppliers and reduce U.S. dependence on Brazil. But the fact is that no legislation can be as effective in keeping coffee beans from bouncing as the one weapon that has worked: the U.S. consumer's pocketbook...
...life I give for the freedom of my country," said the note carried in the pocketbook of ember-eyed Lolita Lebroón the bloody day last March when she and three henchmen of Puerto Rico's fanatic Nationalist Party sprayed the chamber of U.S. House of Representatives with pistol bullets, wounding five Congressmen.* Last week Terrorist Lebroón got a much lighter sentence than she apparently expected. Washington's Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff gave her the maximum for assault with a dangerous weapon: 50 years in prison, with eligibility for parole in 16 years, eight months...
...types. In the '20s and '30s, Boeing's name was on some of the world's fastest pursuit ships and bombers. Boeing pioneered today's streamlined all-metal transports, built the famed four-engined Boeing "Clippers," the first for regular transatlantic service. Betting its pocketbook on performance, Boeing has sometimes lost money. But on such bombers as World War II's B-17 and B29, the design gambles have paid off. By 1945 half the nation's total aircraft manufacturing space was devoted to building Boeing's fabled Forts...