Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Builder's Hope. Deerfield's trouble is not so much hard-shell racism as pocketbook fear. Many residents are on-the-rise young executives in Loop corporation offices who went into mortgage debt to buy split-levels (average price: $23,000) for their growing families. With the steady rise of the real-estate market, the tightly budgeted family heads (average salary: $9,000) hoped to break even or turn a small profit by the time their companies assigned them to better jobs in other cities. But their hopes did not take into account the secret plans of Builder...
...game that any number could play, and there was scarcely a U.S. family last week that did not feel the cold muzzle of rising prices pressed against its pocketbook. Officially, the news was told in plain statistics: the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the consumer price index had risen an average .4% between the end of May and the end of June, bringing the index factor to an all-time high of 124.5 (1947-49 average...
...Peabody is not at all helped by the University in these essential renovations. We do this out of our pocketbook and on our own initiative. Fund raising is a difficult task but, if one sticks to it, eventually one finds the right person who is willing to pay for the revision of an area in the Museum that really needs...
Accessory. In Putnam, Conn., when Mechanic Hector Cote explained to a woman motorist that she had been having trouble with her car because she had been driving with the choke pulled out, the lady said: "Oh, I thought that was to hang my pocketbook...
...sharp eye behind Vision belongs to Publisher William E. Barlow, 41, a personable promoter who persuaded about 27 investors to put up $750,000 to start the company in 1949. The biggest pocketbook behind Vision belongs to Board Chairman J. Noel Macy, of the family that controls a profitable string of nine dailies in New York's wealthy Westchester County. Barlow, who has steered through plenty of adversity of his own, will merge Tide's ankle-deep circulation (12,825) with the weekly Printers' Ink (circ. 32,231), another property in the wide-angle field of Vision...