Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waning hopes that Johnson would raise taxes, the Fed's governors kept rapidly increasing the supply of money during the first part of 1966. Businessmen, eager to expand their overworked plants, hired more employees and built inventories, went on a borrowing spree and were willing to pay a premium price for money. Loans to business - which usually flatten out during the first half - actually jumped by $7.5 billion, or almost...
...still with the sound of success. Julie's recording of the Sound of Music holds the sales record (7,000,000) for all LPs, and her album of My Fair Lady (6,000,000 copies) is second. This month her LP of Christmas songs, recorded as a special premium offer for Firestone, is selling like crazy at Firestone dealers for $1 a throw. Even her rare appearances on television ring up records. Her last TV special, in November 1965, pulled 35 million viewers-more than the Streisand show or the Carol Channing show or the Sinatra show that season...
Although CB weapons work very well against crops, it is easy for human beings to protect themselves by wearing gas masks or entering shelters -- provided they are warned. Only in a surprise attack, then, are the weapons effective. "It puts an enormous premium on the low blow," Meselson says...
...Premium on Maturity. Another innovation, mandatory for all students at Florida Presbyterian and already adopted by such established colleges as Bard, Colgate and Colby, is the "winter semester" of open-end independent study. Spliced in between the two regular semesters, it gives the students a month each year to pursue a sweep of projects ranging from the study of nonthermal radio emissions of Jupiter and digging up the Mayan past in Yucatán to working with migrant workers in Florida's orange groves...
...newsmen first gathered around Lyndon Johnson's bedside at Bethesda last week, they found him intently studying a memorandum on the question of a tax increase. The President shoved the document toward the reporters for a quick glance. One sentence stood out. "We feel there is a high premium," it said, "on an announcement within the first ten days of December...