Word: businesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shell homes were launched 17 years ago by an enterprising young truck driver named Jim Walter, who went into busi ness with $600 borrowed from his father. The idea had great appeal to returning servicemen, who did not yet have it made and were handy with their hands. By 1961, shell firms accounted for 8% of the one-family housing market and had be come one of Wall Street's bets on the future. But fast-buck builders swarmed in, competition stiffened, and many firms began putting up frames with little regard for quality or adequate financing...
...With discouraging familiarity the erican League settled down to busi last week, the annual dull job of oding which also-ran will run where nd the perennially champion New Yankees...
...have swum bare-arsed in the Maka-busi River with many piccanins in my poorer days," Sir Roy Welensky once roared on television. He obviously thought his statement was enough to disprove the charge that he is antiblack. But as Prime Minister of the Central African Federation, jumbo-sized (6 ft. 2 in., 282 Ibs.) Roy Welensky stands as the biggest and most powerful symbol of white supremacy in the largest and richest white colonial bastion still left in Africa...
...five-year term, though it is never prudent to go to the country at the last moment. He would really have preferred to delay the election until September, he said, but the Liberals' "delaying tactics and obstruction" had made it "al most impossible to proceed with the busi ness of the House." Thus, Diefenbaker explained blandly, "the only course" open to him was to seek dissolution of Parliament and call an immediate election...
Anything Else. Brooklyn-born Sam Resnick was a jolly, roly-poly man, a prosperous retail jeweler. Through the years he parlayed his Newburgh, N.Y. shop into a chain of ten stores. He did a big business in West Point class rings, had a number of prominent friends (among the pictures on his bedroom wall were an autographed photo of Thomas E. Dewey, others of Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio). He lavished affection and money on his frail wife Lillian. (Says she: "I was his queen.") His blue Cadillac bore the license plates "S.L.R." In 1959 Sam developed a heart...