Word: buying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...District of Columbia, news of the last Deficiency Bill's report to the Senate floor is treated as the year's best moment to buy a pint or more of hard liquor. Open house is declared in the Capitol from end to end. Even dignified Speaker Bankhead lets word get about that there is cracked ice in his office. Small groups of members gather chummily in cloakroom corners to sing the ancient adjournment favorite: There's Blood on the Saddle...
...Appropriated $795,000 to buy Alaskan reindeer to feed 19,000 Eskimo families...
...materials to Japan when six months notice is up and possibly penalty duties on Japanese goods. Cutting off U.S. scrap would put a serious crimp in Japan's manufacture of guns and other weapons. With very little scrap iron available outside of the U.S., Japan would have to buy expensive iron and steel or iron ore. For her other U.S.-supplied war materials (oil and gasoline, pig iron, copper, machinery and engines, autos, trucks and parts) Japan could go elsewhere, but not to advantage. To be unable to buy parts for her U.S.-made trucks, etc. might be embarrassing...
...zero freezing they are tempered at 30°, then thin-sliced and packed into six-layer steaks (a super-steak can be made by stacking two such steaks) and sold in two sizes, six-inch ovals for household use, four-and-a-half-inch ovals for restaurants. Housewives can buy them for 10? to 12? each, restaurants sell the small sizes in 15? sandwiches...
Last month President's Message No. 51 laid facts & figures before L. & N. employes to dramatize Jim Hill's constant plea for small savings. To get the money to buy one lead pencil, said he, L. & N. (a lucky, coal-hauling road) must haul 1,887 pounds of average freight one mile; to buy one track bolt, eleven tons. Other figures: one typewriter, 11,552 tons; one brakeman's lantern, 162; one fireman's coal scoop...