Word: buying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government was aware of the report, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard Austen Butler replied: "Yes, sir, and my noble friend [Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax] has reason to believe that this report is not without foundation." If the Soviet Union was going to give Germany the wherewithal to buy raw materials abroad, possibly in fee simple for hands off in the East Baltic, the blockading British had something to worry about...
Said Mr. Woodrum: "I have never heard of such a colossal propaganda undertaking in the 16 years I have been a member. We have condemned the utilities, we have condemned Dr. Townsend; but at least they had to have offices downtown. They had to employ secretaries. They had to buy typewriters and, at least, they did not set up their committees under the dome of the Capitol...
...many Berliners heard the relatively feeble Freedom Station, but in a delirium of joy they promptly spread the news by word of mouth. Vegetable and flower sellers, arriving to open their stalls in Berlin markets, promptly pooled their pfennigs to buy cheap brandy and new cider. French Premier Edouard Daladier was supposed by the jubilant Germans to have secured the "Armistice," and in Berlin's huckster-jammed Wittenberg Platz a tipsy citizen, balancing on a chair with glass in hand, bellowed a toast: "Daladier is smarter than we thought...
...Steel companies, faced with a $5 a ton rise in costs as a result of the $10 rise in scrap prices,* went on strike against $26 scrap, refused to buy till they got reductions of 25? to $1 a ton. Hard-bargaining Bethlehem managed to buy 90,000 tons in Buffalo at $22 to $23-a three months supply...
Dennett advised that if a student really wishes to help beggars, he should either buy a book of meal tickets at some restaurant, or take the man's name and consult the files of some relief agency...