Word: getting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Cairo rumor now has it that Nasser would like to scuttle Gumhuria and turn Akhbar into a kind of Egyptian Pravda. But most Egyptian newsmen argued that in the end Nasser would recognize that he needed the Amins and their lively journalism to get his own message across. Such was obviously the hope of the Amins themselves, who scrupulously refrained from any criticism of Nasser, would only say cautiously: "There has been something of a misunderstanding...
...that he was "lighting the candle" for his second crusade. (His first: the compact car.) The new crusade, he declared at a New York press conference, is a "progress-sharing plan to aid the neglected consumer." As of Dec. 1 through March, customers who buy American Motors cars will get rebates of U.S. Savings Bonds if sales increase enough over the year-ago levels...
Each buyer of an American Motors car will get a $25 bond for every 10% increase. The effects will be cumulative. Thus if December sales increase 10%, and there is another gain in January so that the two months' total rise is 20%, the December buyer who has already received one $25 bond will get another, and the January buyer will get a $50 bond. The most any buyer can get is $125 in bonds for a 50% increase. Romney said he would probably renew the plan after the four-month trial...
...which would create a vast railroad net rivaled only by the Pennsylvania in assets ($2.3 billion) and surpassed only by the Santa Fe in track mileage (11,000). Eventually, Tuohy sees a huge, unified rail system in the East. Says he: "This opens the sluice gates. Wait till we get this merger squared away. I have other ideas already...
...RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH, by William L. Shirer. The most successful effort yet to get into one volume the grisly and disheartening history of Naziism, from the birth of its creator to his suicide in a Berlin bunker. In Hitler, argues Shirer with a wealth of supporting evidence, the German people got just what they wanted...