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...spends ". . . hours each day in his national committeeman's headquarters in the Biltmore Hotel." On Mondays and Fridays he ". . . holds court ... in Tammany Hall." He "averages a dozen speeches a week . . . He politicks at his kitchen table from 8 a.m. and all the while he is trying to chart the presidential candidacy of the Governor of New York, Averell Harriman, etc., etc." Tell me-do our taxes pay this man a salary as Secretary of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...looking graph alongside is misleading. In the text, you say that the customer pays 25% down ("common terms nowadays"). This means that he owes initially only $1,800, which is less than the $1,920 the car is then worth . . . You ought to correct the impression given by the chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...while he is trying to chart the presidential candidacy of the Governor of New York, Averell Harriman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A New Kind of Tiger | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...maintained? Many economists believe it can. If the present rate is extended to 1975, U.S. employment will have trebled in the first 75 years of the 20th century, while the value of the national output, spurred by higher wages and rising living standards, will have increased sixfold (see chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Full & Growing | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...with 25% down and 30 months to pay (common terms nowadays). The moment the owner proudly drives his shiny new car home, it becomes a used car, and depreciates 20%. Thus for the first 97 months he has the car, he owes more than the car is worth (see chart). This is a danger period, says G.M.A.C., because "customers who have paid less than ten monthly payments on their cars account for 82% of G.M.A.C. new-car repossessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AUTO CREDIT | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

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