Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blind River has not let Hirshhorn's proposition deter it from the more immediate business of making a fast boomtown buck. The town council turned down a plan for a general tax reassessment to provide revenue for urgently needed public improvements; all the improving underway is motivated by the familiar old law of supply and demand. Two of the town's hotels have built or are planning to build more bedrooms. Menard's department store, whose basement is given over to the only undertaking establishment in town, has prospered enough to plan a separate $30,000 funeral...
Social Security. In Artesia, N.Mex., insisting that the Government had no right to seize his $83 bank account for alleged back taxes, Insurance Adjuster Lester Plummer sued Internal Revenue Agent C. Buck Caviness and "other unknown persons" for $4.5 billion, explained: "I might as well get up into figures the Government can understand...
...Duke Vanishes. When Craven heard of her visits with Lamb and turned her out, Harriette told herself, "This is what one gets by acting with principle." She never made the same mistake again. Having left Craven for Lamb, she left Lamb for the Duke of Argyll. Entertaining a likely buck at the opera, Harriette would sigh: "His legs were so beautiful, and his skin so clear and transparent . . . and 30,000 a year besides." The proudest titles of Britain vied for her favor; the heirs to great fortunes rushed from Oxford and Cambridge to throng her opera...
What the French student needs is not too different from what the French people need. He needs to be a go-getter, an eager beaver, someone out for a fast buck. Say what you may, it's this kind of person that has brought competition into the U.S. And we all know from our civics books that competition makes us strong...
...face of spiraling costs, many a U.S. daily has died in the last ten years, and few new ones have been born. Three months ago, in Tallahassee, Fla. (pop. 38,002), Leo William Bowmall, vice president of Manhattan's Bulkley Dunton Pulp Co., decided to try to buck the trend. He and other backers put up more than $250,000 to launch the Tallahassee Capital Post, to compete with the 50-year old Tallahassee Democrat (circ. 14,014). Last week, after barely 68 days of life, the new paper died. Even though the Post was small, with a circulation...