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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Profound Hypocrisy." Johnson's boldest proposal was an eloquent plea for "a national policy against racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing." Said he: "Negro ghettos indict our cities North and South. As long as the color of a man's skin determines his choice of housing, no investment in the physical rebuilding of our cities will free the men and women living there." Noting that "Negro Americans comprise 22% of the enlisted men in our Army combat units in Viet Nam-and 22% of those who have lost their lives in battle there," the President...
...shares a day-or 58% more than last year. The smaller, swinging American Stock Exchange traded 318 million shares, up 123% from last year. In the first ten days of April, the American had an 82% turnover, meaning that 82% of the 1,045 issues for sale were traded, many of them with 10-to 15-point jumps in value in a single...
...stock on the same day and count on rising prices to pay off their purchase and provide a profit as well. On the New York Stock Exchange, day-traders must now put up 70% of a stock's value within four days of purchase and sale, even if they have already sold it. On the American, they must ante up 70% beforehand. At the same time, margin accounts are being tightened. On new accounts, the minimum equity has been raised from...
Funds for the first issue were donated by the Committee on Latin American Studies, the faculty group which coordinates work in the area. The revenue from the magazine sale wil be used to finance next year's first issue, Trobe said...
...persuade lenders to make 5¾% FHA loans at all is to pay them a 5?; penalty on every borrowed dollar. Though FHA theoretically prohibits builders from passing that 5% "discount" on to home buyers, the industry has long since learned how to hide such costs in the sale price of its product. In the sale of existing homes under FHA, the "discount" inflates prices almost automatically because the seller must absorb the entire amount...