Word: etc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newly appointed chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Walter Heller is willing "to accept-in preference to high unemployment-a 'tolerable' amount of inflation," then we as a nation should be ready to accept a little bit of embezzlement, bank robbery, blackmail, etc...
...Among other things, it urged fat federal unemployment subsidies to guarantee every jobless worker at least 50% of his wages for 39 weeks; big Government spending programs for health, welfare, urban renewal, school buildings and teachers' salaries; more construction of highways, post offices, military bases, etc. Cost: "$3 billion to $5 billion...
...year for college housing loans, $650 million a year for urban renewal, big subsidies for low-income housing, a step-up in Federal Housing Administration authorizations and liberalized terms, a new Cabinet-level Department of Housing and Urban Development, a loan fund for suburban planning, aid for mass transit, etc. Cost of the package: not disclosed...
...Pick a tough, independent deputy mayor who would scour up the 20-odd headlined scandals that have tarnished Wagner's purchasing department, police department, etc. Already approached for the job: able City Planning Commission Chairman James Felt, who likes the idea...
...when young Michael Marks, a Polish immigrant to England, opened a stall in the marketplace at Leeds, Yorkshire and began selling needles, thread, thimbles, etc. for a penny each, he refused to keep any paper records. Now, 75 years later, his penny bazaars, under his son, Sir Simon Marks, have grown into Marks & Spencer (237 stores), Britain's most prosperous retail chain, with annual sales of $420 million. Despite the chain's size, Sir Simon last week was in the middle of a retailing experiment to see if he could do as his father did-run his vast...