Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midnight curfew for West Germany's 150,000 G.I.s, promised to weed out "misfits and lawbreakers" from U.S. units. Some Army commanders are inclined to blame the increase in serious violence on the Army's much-ballyhooed new "Operation Gyroscope," whereby entire units, up to divisions, trade duty stations. Formerly, fresh groups of young draftees went into old units, where they benefited from the restraining influence of veteran troops...
...under full Communist regimentation, would inevitably outvote the free South, numbering 10.5 million. The interim two-year period was primarily designed as a breathing space in which the French were able to pull their troops out gracefully with a minimum loss of face and a maximum chance of later trade with the future all Communist Viet...
...TRADE-IN HOUSING
...annual rate of 1,100,000 starts, off 200,000 from last year. So far, builders are not too worried; the trend to bigger, more expensive houses has helped maintain a high dollar volume. Nevertheless, the decline has given a big boost to a little-known idea: trade-in housing. Detroit Builder-Broker Gordon Williamson, who used to sell cars in the '20s, says that real-estate dealers are today at the point where auto dealers found themselves 30 years ago; they are going to have to handle trade-in houses to stay in business, because...
...spur trade-ins, FHA has put into effect a liberalized financing program. For the first time real-estate brokers and land developers are eligible for FHA mortgages on trade-in deals, thus freeing them of the financial burden of carrying trade-ins on their own. Furthermore, builders who take trade-ins are no longer required to make FHA-approved major improvements before reselling them. Builders complain that the FHA still takes too long to move, appraises houses too low, lends too little on mortgages. In most cases, builders can get a top of 85% on the owner's mortgage...