Inflation eats the gains in home sale and gold bets
A suburban seller who claimed a $60 000 sale on an $35 000 house eight years earlier finds after costs and inflation that his real gain was negative. The piece argues inflation punishes buyers and highlights gold’s volatile path, concluding there’s no free lunch with inflation. It notes Abner Doubleday and the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N Y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Cunniff
New York
Abner Doubleday
Fort Sumter
Cooperstown
N.Y
Baseball Hall of Fame
Today in History December 6 1978 highlights
Today in history notes key events on December 6 across years. It recalls Franklin Roosevelt appealing for peace to Emperor Hirohito before Pearl Harbor, Lincoln’s 1847 Congress seat, Jefferson Davis’s death, the 1917 Halifax explosion, Eisenhower’s WW II command, the 13th Amendment ratification in 1865, and Britain sanctions on Rhodesia in 1966.
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Associated Press
Franklin Roosevelt
Hirohito
Japan
Abraham Lincoln
Congress
Illinois
Jefferson Davis
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Dwight Eisenhower
Europe
U.S
Britain
Rhodesia
Editorials GOP goes get it together
WILLIAMSBURG Virginia editorials report GOP governors at a November meeting weighing 1980 presidential influence after 1978 gains. Only James Thompson of Illinois seen as potential candidate. others seek patronage power to shape primaries. Leaders urge staying loose to avoid committing to Reagan, while moderates doubt strong Reagan backing.
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Martha Angle
Robert Walters
Williamsburg
Nea
Illinois
James Thompson
State House
GOP
Ronald Reagan
Michigan
William Milliken
Pennsylvania
Minnesota
California
Political ad consultants balk at 1980 plans
Doug Bailey and John Deardourff, top GOP advertising consultants, remain uncertain about 1980 plans. They were involved in Ford's 1976 campaign against Carter and are being courted by many potential contenders, yet no candidate excites them as yet.
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Doug Bailey
John Deardourff
GOP
John Sears
Bailey & Deardourff
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Mule Skinners and White Lightning on the Monahans-Kermit Job
Alton Hughes recalls a 1930s Monahans to Kermit highway project near Wink. Fresno teams found a case of Canadian Club, got drunk, and disrupted sand placement for three days. The Texas Highway Department began surveying toward Carlsbad with Ira R. Titus as engineer, amid primitive equipment and makeshift caliche processing. Charley Armstrong's crews lived in simple road camps, enjoyed hearty meals, and adopted early power shovels. The final Carlsbad segment saw rip-rap work and an explosive method to pulverize the spillway channel, which then cleaned out with the first flood.
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Monahans-Kermit Highway
Fresno
Kermit
Wink Cut-off
Wink
Hell
Mentone Y
Armstrongs
New Mexico State Line
Armstrong
Charley Armstrong
Charley
Charley's Camp
Pecos-Carlsbad
Broken promises and questionable moves in federal policy
The column rails at FDA delays on medical marijuana for chemotherapy patients in New Mexico and recounts the 68 aging Filipino WWII veterans who gained citizenship after a court ruling, while criticizing GSA and NRC handling of office space and urban revitalization goals in San Francisco.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Euraucratic Shilly Shallving
Food and Drug Administration
New Mexico
White House
Food and Drug
Health, Education and Welfare
Joseph Califano
George Goldstein
FDA
United States
Bataan
Corregidor
Congress
U.S
Immigration Service
Philippines
Justice Department
General Services Administration
GSA
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
West Coast
Walnut Creek
Calif
Rolling Hills
San Francisco Bay
Commission
Carter
San Francisco
Bay Area
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Fort Worth
Alton Hughes
Mule Skinners and
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Merry
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