Word: piggybacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wouldn't have much fun as a pro." During the Open, while the pros were getting their sleep and spending long hours on the practice tee grooving their swings, Amateur Lacoste was swinging in groovier fashion-bowling, taking in a movie, dancing a wild midnight Charleston, giving piggyback rides to children in her hotel...
Modest Nest Egg. The new company, Home Capital Funds, Inc., will lend 15% of the price of a home, and such traditional mortgage sources as Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and Minneapolis-based Investors Diversified Services will pick up another 75% to create a 90% loan. The arrangement is called "piggyback" financing because it avoids risky second mortgages, involves a single joint loan on each house. Brewer calls it "a virtual partnership" between lenders and manufacturers "to assure a continuous flow of money to buyers at rates and down payments they can afford...
Ambitious though the goal may seem, piggyback mortgaging has already caught on in Canada, where Central Covenants, Ltd., formed on the initiative of Alcan Aluminium, Ltd., has arranged low-down-payment loans on some 7,000 homes since mid-1964. In the U.S., Weyerhaeuser and General
...wring all the mileage they can from new technology, the railroads are promoting piggyback delivery of truck trailers, adopting computer-controlled operations and bookkeeping, devising special-purpose cars to win back shippers. Multilevel auto-rack cars, for instance, have enabled railroads to regain $100 million of motorcar hauling lost to trucks, while saving automakers $200 million. A few rail lines are even making a bid for passengers. Though two of his routes run parallel to new expressways, Chairman Ben Heineman gambled $50 million on modernizing the Chicago and North Western's commuter service-and won. Patronage is now climbing...
...increasing popularity of jet air freight, along with the promise of truly gigantic cargo planes within a few years, U.S. shipping companies have finally, and belatedly, begun to battle back. The weapon on which they pin the most hope: a technique called container shipping. A seagoing adaptation of piggyback rail freight, container shipping involves packing cargo into steel, aluminum or wood containers of more or less standard size (8 ft. high, 8 ft. wide and 10, 20, 30 or 40 ft. long) at the factory, no matter how far inland. The containers are then moved by truck or train...