Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even if he does not use it in the summer; this constitutes a serious drain on his resources. Summer sublets almost always entail a loss, since the supply in a college community far exceeds the off-season demand. This enhances the attractiveness of such a location as Revere--a resort area--where a profitable sublease is relatively easy to acquire...
...Treasury. Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corp., which has some $350 million in public loans, could also go into the open market, as it did in 1953 and 1954, float $1 billion or more in loans through "certificates of interest" on the surplus crops it holds. As a last resort, the Treasury can also draw down its $3.4 billion cash balance, i.e., uncommitted money in the till, to pay bills. Yet even with such devices, says Assistant Secretary Heffelfinger, "the debt may be right at the roof before we see our way clear...
...Dutch fortified their case by issuing a joint statement with Australia pledging their governments to cooperate in the administration of their territories on the huge island of New Guinea, "to promote an uninterrupted development" toward self-determination. Warned Sukarno darkly: "If the United Nations fails us we will resort to methods which will startle the world...
...group troup took the Experimenters and some of their Yugoslav hosts through Macedonia to Lake Chrid, a resort area on the Albanian border; then along the Dalmatian coast on the Adriatic to Dubrounik...
...bicycle salesman: "The villagers are getting lazy. They don't want to walk any more; they want bicycles." While modern communications have whetted consumer appetites in Pakistan as in Peoria, the danger is that nations whose production continues to lag far behind their hopes of material progress will resort to political extremes that will plunge them deeper into want...