Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students into residence, in September, 1642, and presiding at the first Commencement, according to the dignified rites of his mother university. This completion of the building was no small feat, for Dunster had not been in office a year when a severe economic crisis struck New England. "Corn would buy nothing", wrote Governor Winthrop. "A cow which cost last year 20 pounds might now be bought for four or five pounds; then, too, many people have gone out of the country, as no man could pay his debts." The more active members of the Board of Overseers returned to England...
Churches were found closed for want of money to pay a parson. Public houses were boarded up for lack of pennies to buy beer. Miners interviewed repeatedly, said that throughout the Rhondda mining area most families can buy meat not oftener than once a week, seeming to live principally on bread, margarine, tea. At the local Teachers Union an instructor allowed himself to be anonymously quoted thus...
...There's no fight left in any of them. All they want is a chance to work so they can eat. . . . Nobody steals around here. There's nothing to steal. Half the people haven't a table or a chair-had to sell them to buy bread...
Comedians recalled that as Finance Minister M. Klotz started the slogan: "The Bosches will pay!" That was supposed to justify the War expenditures of France, however staggering. Also, at the close of the War, Finance Minister Klotz signed a paper which enabled him to buy from the U. S.-on credit-the $400,000,000 surplus war supplies of the A. E. F. in France. Promptly M. Klotz sold this credit-bought goods for cash. They brought so little that ever since France has been repenting his bargain. Today one of the chief perplexities of Prime Minister Raymond Poincare...
Price is a difficult thing for a motor manufacturer to fix. Labor costs so-much, material so-much. Not in all cases is it possible to economize by making one's own parts. It often is cheaper to buy from a large-scale parts factory. In a list of 93 models, for example, 13 used Lycoming motors, 14 Continentals. Ford, famed for controlling all manufacturing steps from raw material to finished cars, last week had contracted to buy batteries, tires, bodies, shock absorbers from outside companies.* All manufacturers seem to give good value in 1929 cars. The table...