Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the 35 adults earn all or part of their living selling the Avatar, keeping about half of the 35 cents they get on each sale. Some, including Jim Kweskin, leader of the "jug band" which bears his name, have other sources of income. Nine or ten work full-time putting out the paper, Hansen said...
...Safe Streets Act with a $100 million authorization, double the amount he requested last year. He called for a gun-control law to halt "the trade in mail-order murder" (an appeal that roused Robert Kennedy to his only applause during the 50-minute speech). To end "the sale of slavery to the young," he called for a narcotics-control act that would impose harsher penalties for the sale of LSD "and other dangerous drugs," and urged adding 219 agents to the present total of 639 in the Narcotics Bureau and in the Health, Education and Welfare Department...
...interest in Executive Jet Aviation, a young company organized to provide charter service to businessmen. Among other advantages, Executive Jet gives the Pennsy a foothold in aviation and a start toward what Saunders calls a "total transportation company." For such investments the Pennsy has a large kitty. From its sale of the Long Island Railroad to New York State in 1966, and from the gradual disposal of its shares in the N. & W. and its 98.5% interest in the Wabash, the Pennsy had about $500 million to spend, still has around $107 million unallocated. "We are," says Saunders with some...
...continually try to hide the truth because it can drive men mad. So the reader is advised: "Let us all lie together, or surely we shall all lie alone." Fortunately, Fuentes is a natural-born "liar." and frequently skillful and imaginative enough to rivet the attention. Even his windy sales pitches from the existential soapbox are not without charm and vitality. It is as if Fuentes were more interested in the pitch than the sale. In fact, two phrases in the book's closing lines might well have appeared on page 1. They are "Take it easy" and "Stay...
...rise and that all college tuition fees are paid by Bank loans, the Zaccharias committee estimates that in 20 years the Bank's outstanding fund might be as large as $250 billion, or one-seventh of the projected GNP. A substantial portion of this fund would be provided by sale of government bonds and by Congressional grants...