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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four-unit dwelling. By virtually geometrical progression, this mounts to $1,187,195 in 20 years. Arguing from the low foreclosure rate, Nickerson claims that an average man with "average luck" has a 400-to-1 chance of succeeding in real estate. By contrast, "Fifty percent [of new businesses fail] in two years." Arguing from population growth, Nickerson assumes an ever-ready and probably an ever-rising market for his type of real estate deal...
...Twenty-one percent of the Roman Catholics and 25% of the Jews surveyed reported that they had "apostasized." Of the "middleground" Protestants, 39% said they had fallen away...
...Forty percent of those who had abandoned religion said that they planned to raise their children in the faith they themselves had left...
...Eighteen percent of all those answering the questionnaire said they believed in an "infinitely wise, omnipotent, three-person God who created the universe and who maintains an active concern for human affairs." The largest group of respondents -24%-believed in "a God about whom nothing definite can be affirmed." Only 4% flatly denied God's existence...
...look forward to the time when there be men of wisdom in Washington & I can provide my Staff with the Blue Cross & vacations with pay ... Oh if we was legal Lad. If ony we was legal like the other cigarette companies. Every year I'd plow back one percent of the gross inta advertising . . . Girl sittin in a swing-lots of flowers an things aroun her indicating she is accustom to the better things life offers-an under it it say-I smoke Poincianas...