Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...matter what soothing talk Kennedy may put forth about religion's not being an issue, do not be fooled. Religion is the issue in this campaign. Instead of being garbed in a brown derby with a Bowery twang, it comes in a Brooks Brothers suit, clipped accents, and a Pepsodent smile that causes old women and bobby-soxers to swoon and mouth inanities...
...Hungry. Aware that both Nixon and Kennedy were suggesting that the U.S. should do more about defense, the President noted "changing Communist tactics and attitudes," announced that he had ordered the armed forces to take "certain practical measures" to increase their readiness, called for five new Polaris submarines (instead of three), added that it might be necessary to call for more defense appropriations later...
...forward a new $600 million loan program for Latin America. And to the U.N. General Assembly, he went on, the U.S. would soon present a new food-for-peace plan for using the agricultural abundance of the U.S. to "feed the hungry of the world," letting the U.N. instead of the U.S. distribute...
...change means that investors need now put up only $700 instead of $900 to buy each $1,000 worth of stock. The other 30% of the price of the stock is bought on credit, covered by a loan made by the broker, on which the customer pays 4½% to 5% interest. The Fed's move actually affects a small-but important-part of the market, since only some 20% of all shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange are on margin. With less "down payment" required, an investor is now able to increase his stock holdings immediately...
...producing 5,000,000 bats by 1962 or 1963. Though the family-owned company keeps its profit figures to itself, they are hefty enough to keep a spacious box for Bud Hillerich at Churchill Downs, where he likes to get away from it all by sizing up thoroughbreds instead of sluggers...