Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enormous growth of private debt does not dismay the Chamber, which argues that "economic growth depends heavily on debt expansion." In fact, as any businessman knows, debt is one of the economy's most valuable lubricants. It helps bridge time gaps between the production of goods and their sale, channels savings into productive investment, allows capital to move more freely, and permits greater equality in buying by allowing people to buy against expectation of future income. The availability of credit strongly affects the economic activity of such groups as small businessmen, home buyers, and state and local governments...
...last week that it would publish Henry Miller's polemic 27-year-old book, The Tropic of Cancer, for the first time in the United States on June 24. Reaction in Cambridge has been so strong that several book stores in the Square have already put the work on sale...
...measure to stem the outflow of U.S. gold, President Kennedy banned the future sale of all non-U.S.-made goods in overseas military exchanges, including Scotch whisky. On Formosa, preparing for the visit of Vice President Lyndon Johnson, U.S. brass were vexed to find that they could not supply the standard L.B.J. ration of Cutty Sark. They flew some in from the nearest source-Hong Kong...
...administrators have little trouble with either the city of Providence or the state of Rhode Island. Indeed each side is constantly striving to co-operate with the other. In 1956, when the land on which Brown's new Dexter-Aldrich athletic facilities are being built was first offered for sale, President Barnaby C. Keeney confidently expressed Brown's interest and need for the property in the knowledge that "our relations with the city have long been mutually beneficial...
...long and pleasant relationship with the City of Providence." Mayor Walter H. Reynolds (a non-college graduate but now an honorary Brown alumnus) first said that he would "see what he could do" when the university asked for the land, then was was instrumental in completing the sale...