Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford also took occasion to hint that he, like the Packard Company, was developing a new motor for aviation. He then proceeded to Alexandria, Va., to buy antiques...
William Gibbs McAdoo placatingly ex plained that, after he had exhorted San Diegoans to buy Liberty Bonds and keep courage to win the War, he did not have face to refuse a proffered air ride. He would have seemed to lack courage...
...Small independent tobacconists announced that they would continue to sell 15? cigarets for 15?, but did not specify who would buy the cigarets at this price...
...Taplin decided that the best thing a big coal company could do was to buy its own railroad. He didn't like (he said) the way the Pittsburgh & Virginia was run (it had gone through several receiverships), so be bought it. Later he acquired large holdings in Wheeling & Lake Erie and has since been attempting to put together the lake-to-sea system which George Gould had begun...
Last week Publisher Block began a new chapter in his journalistic adventures. But this time he did not buy a newspaper. Instead, he acquired the sole right to sell all the national advertising space for William Randolph Hearst's New York American. The agreement came thus: To Publisher Hearst, as is generally known, the American is more of a political pride than a profitable joy. Sometimes it makes money; more times it does not. Not long ago, with this fact in mind, Publisher Hearst cast his eye about, saw Pub lisher Block making money as a com petitor...