Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...react, and often to overreact-called for a surtax early in 1967, he helped the market to spurt. Professionals figured that if taxes rose as an anti-inflationary measure, the Federal Reserve's Chairman Martin could loosen up a bit on money and interest rates. But the market went down whenever opposition to the surtax was voiced by Congressman Wilbur Mills, the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, whose power over economic legislation gives him an influence over the market that ranks just behind that of Johnson and Martin...
...most extravagant lady's sport coat in the world, price no object." What might the coat cost? "Oh, maybe $20,000," said Liebes. Adds Alexander Ehrlich of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman, who was commissioned by Alaska to produce a sample, full-length cape to stimulate interest, went on to buy 30 pelts: "With all the couturiers looking for something new, this is the ideal time to introduce this fur. Now it's up to the women." And perhaps to the men as well. Ed Shepherd, in charge of Alaska's sea-otter trade, recalls that...
...Henry David Thoreau, when he talked about civil disobedience, he wasn't kidding. Because of his opposition to the Mexican War, he refused to pay a tax and was hustled off to jail. To express their own hostility to the Viet Nam war, 448 contemporary writers and journalists went along with Thoreau last week-or rather part of the way. Quoting Thoreau's ringing challenge to the state, the signers* announced in full-page ads in the New York Post and the New York Review of Books that "1) None of us voluntarily will pay the proposed...
...This," she says, "was the only thing I could keep down." But it did not raise the alcohol level in her blood high enough to keep the oxytocin down. For that, a level close to the intoxication mark is needed. Her contractions began again. So back she went to the hospital. And there she stayed for eight weeks...
...final report on the New York Central, Alfred E. Perlman, now president and administrative head of the Penn Central, announced that railroad operating earnings in 1967 plunged from $43,554,927 to $1,233,610-a full 97%. Even with subsidiary endeavors counted, the Central's profits went from $60,215,400 to $10,996,000-an 81.7% dropoff...