Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Collective buying by ultimate consumers is not widely known in the U. S.; but more than 5,000,000 Britons, mostly housewives, are owner-members of Cooperative Societies which buy goods to the stupendous value of $1,500,000,000 per year...
...know . . ." piped a delegate from Wallsend, "I know one Labor candidate who was elected to Parliament and wanted a new suit of clothes to wear up to London. But did he buy it ready-made in our Cooperative store? No! He went to a b-- tailor...
...sleeping cars are clean and well served. . . . The trains do about 25 miles per hour with frequent stops to fuel at wood piles along the way. . . . About half the passengers usually eat in the diner. The other half buy food from the peasants and have picnic meals in their compartments. The peasants gather at the stations at train time with all kinds of cooked food for sale . . . good bread, golden honey, boiled milk, roast ducks and chickens...
...sale next Tuesday was made last night by T. H. Eliot '28, chairman of the Senior Album Committee. The permanent record of the class of 1928 will be delivered to Notman's Studio, 1286 Massachusetts Avenue, where subscribers may obtain their copies and officers who wish the book may buy it. The price will be $10 per copy...
...their torture. Publicity hastened the case to trial through the lagging courts. Some found doctors who thought the women might not die. No one found a doctor who thought they might be completely cured. Said Katherine Schaub: "Do you think getting married will help me? . . . I don't buy anything. . . . I haven't any money. . . . I'm-worried. . . . When I die I'll only have lilies on my coffin, not roses as I'd like. . . . If I won my $250,000, mightn't I have lots of roses...