Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...companies and Anglo-Iranian. The larger U.S. companies can use more crude and have the tankers to transport it. While Anglo-Iranian has shown no disposition to cut any outsiders in on Iranian oil, U.S. oilmen think it may be the only hope left for a solution that would save face all around...
Bedmaking was dropped because it was an "outdated luxury," according to Peter P. Welanetz, superintendent of buildings and grounds. He stated the new plan will save the college "about $10,000 a year...
...which can be placed on wheels and moved anywhere in the dome and connected to flexible hoses and electrical wiring. Fuller intends to rent, not sell his houses and units, hopes to price them as low as $100 a month. A dome owner, taking his family on vacation, can save rent on his units by phoning Fuller and having him remove the bathroom, etc., until the family returns. ¶The Endless House, an ellipse-shaped model somewhat resembling a large, smooth stone, is the work of Vienna-born Frederick Kiesler. Designer Kiesler calls it the Endless House because its structure...
...Georgia schoolhouse one day last week drove a salesman named John Stacy Cotter. "Most people want to save," he told Teacher Elizabeth Burke, "but most people don't save. I can show you how." Salesman Cotter had no promises of big returns to offer: if Teacher Burke would pay $16.70 a month for twenty years-a total of $4,008-she would get back $5,000. Teacher Burke would earn only 1.91% interest on her money, far less than on a Government bond. Moreover, if Teacher Burke quit the plan before ten 'years, she could not even...
...promising so little, Salesman Cotter manages to make around $20,000 a year in commissions. His employer, Minneapolis' Investors Diversified Services, Inc., has sold so many such savings plans that its total assets last week were above the $1 billion mark. Most big-city dwellers have never heard of I.D.S. But in farm areas and small towns all over the U.S. and Canada, some 2,000 salesmen, who make $8 to $20 per year on every $1,000 plan sold, sign up contracts for $5,000,000 in savings each week. The big appeal lies in the fact that...