Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper's salesmen run into surprisingly little sales resistance. In the old days, before the show-business community decided that honest sheets such as Variety deserved a little support, Variety salesmen were forced to practice the hard-sell, often found it even harder to collect. Many a buck-and-wing team was trailed from Times Square to Peoria before its bill was paid...
...Paul H. Buck, Librarian of Harvard College, was made a Commander of the Royal Order of the Phoenix, and Harry K. Messenger, Honorary Curator of the Modern Greek Collection in the Harvard College Library, received the Gold Cross of the Royal Order of George I for devoting his full time in the past two and a half years to increasing the collection...
...Democratic 86th Congress is certain to buck violently against the Administration budget in such fields as reclamation and social welfare. But in that sense the mere presentation of a balanced budget puts the Administration in a favorable position: anyone who wants to spend more will have to unbalance it-and suffer the possible political consequences...
Wall Street is well aware of electronics' rapid growth, pays as much as 40 and 50 times earnings for what it calls "Buck Rogers stocks." Eager buyers this year boosted Texas Instruments from 26¾ to 86, Raytheon from 22 to 62⅝, Fairchild Camera from 18⅞ to 64¾, General Transistor from 17 to 51. But to many Wall Streeters, even such high prices seem cheap when sales and earnings are zooming. Explains one broker: "Current earnings are already past history. If you want to participate in growth, you have...
Second Comedian: Buck up. Go home, have a drink of raki, eat some good white cheese and meat, put plenty of butter on your bread, relax, have a good cigarette and give thanks for a roof over your head. Tomorrow you'll feel fine...