Word: pricing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...similar vein, Richard Nixon told an interviewer that it would be disastrous for a Republican presidential nominee to run on a "peace-at-any-price" platform in 1968. "This would be a Pyrrhic victory the candidate might win," said Nixon, "but the Republican President would soon have another war on his hands." Nixon took note of the growing peace sentiment within the U.S. but added that the task for a presidential contender is not to pander to this sentiment but to exert forceful leadership...
...Some of the records being set are disturbing. Margin requirements are presently 70% for most stocks; yet loans from brokers to cover that remaining 30% have now reached a record $5,580 billion, and shrewder speculators can still get loans for as much as 100% of their purchase price from unregulated lenders...
...Acapulco gold (maximum penalty for possession: six years) were jammed in with hardened characters like Félix Radilla, wanted for 85 murders, and Constáncio ("Black Animal") Hernández García, whose gang gunned down 18 soldiers a few months ago. The prisoners pay a price for everything: a cot to sleep on, half-decent food to eat, "protection" from the other prisoners, a few hours of privacy with a wife or girl friend. Many who can afford it simply buy their...
...Ford Division Manager M. S. ("Matt") McLaughlin buoyantly said that dealers will soon have 67,000 of the '68 models on hand. He also managed to seem happy while noting that 158,000 of the '67s are waiting to be sold at a buyer's price. Proclaimed McLaughlin: "It's still business as usual at Ford dealerships...
Though the crisis was over, oil companies still faced continuing costly problems. The closing of the Suez Canal not only forces tankers to sail 4,700 miles farther around the Cape of Good Hope to European markets but has also caused such a price-boosting scramble to charter additional ships that the cost of hauling crude oil from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam has jumped from $2.90 to $18.60 a ton. Salvage experts figure that the handful of scuttled ships blocking the waterway could be cleared away in a month, but silting from its sandy banks may require fresh dredging...