Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers are on active duty. They draw Government pay. They may be ordered on active duty by the President at any time for any period, but need not remain for more than 15 days in any one calendar year unless Congress has declared a national emergency. Reserve officers must buy their own uniforms and insignia and keep them ready for active duty. Uniforms may be worn by reservists not on active duty while in the U. S., on specified occasions (social functions, military ceremonies, instructing at schools and the like...
...nation's press, as everyone knows, points with pride to almost all forms of tobacco advertising, which helps to make profits to buy publishers fat cigars. The sentiment put forth in the name of Cleveland's Boy Scouts, caused a flurry of japes, jibes and ridicule in the nation's press. All Boy Scouts suffered when journalistic smartcrackers suggested ways and means for Cleveland's Boy Scouts to accost women on the street, ask them if they smoke, beg them to refrain...
...Italians and Harlem Negroes buy more player pianos than any other group...
...sale of radios reaches its peak just before a prize fight (women buy on instructions from...
...requires different proportions of ingredients and many formulas remain still to be worked out. Chef Gericke plans to tell U. S. agricultural colleges and departments about the food pill when he returns from lecturing in England, France, Germany, Italy on his experiments. Plant lovers may soon be able to buy the pills when they buy seeds...