Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five o'clock in the morning Mabel was asleep and I went out to take a walk on a station platform. Someone stole my pocket book with all my money, my passport, two crystal bracelets and some samples of window curtains that my mother wanted me to buy in Italy...
People who like to read palms (or have theirs read), who read characters from handwriting and buy books on personality, were glad to hear last week of a new technique of character analysis. Prof. William H. Blake, instructor in educational dramatics at Columbia University, declared: "A person's salient characteristics can be distinguished from the way he holds himself, from the way he distributes his weight, and the way he uses his arms and legs...
Several years ago Squibb (always a fairly close corporation) permitted a number of retailers to buy shares of participating preferred stock. The present plan goes much farther. From the retailer's standpoint it works in some such fashion as this...
...made annual purchases of $500 a year from Squibb he is allowed to buy ten shares (at $50 each) of the 6% cumulative Distributors Preferred stock of a new company, Squibb Plan, Inc. With each $50 he puts in, Squibb Plan buys a share of the parent company's common, now paying $1 a share in dividends†. In addition Squibb Plan receives a sum from the parent company equal to 10% of the amount of the retailer's purchase of Squibb products and an additional 10% on the increase of his purchases over the previous year...
...golf clubmember can either: buy a ball, pay his caddy, have two beers in his club house. For $1, a golf non-clubmember can: borrow a set of clubs, play golf all day long on public links, have a good time. Last week the best of the public linksters had even a better time, played in the annual National Public Links championship at Forest Park Golf Club. St. Louis. Railway clerks, postal employes, butlers, competed against bank-runners, shoe salesmen, bellboys. There were some low scores. In the qualifying round, Brooklyn's Henry Fabrizio took a 70, three others...