Word: buying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freezers. Mrs. Goodhue had the deep freeze packed with meat (one hog, half a baby beef, and 15 or 20 chickens) but she was still a little put out about the time she didn't get some pork chops thawed out soon enough for lunch and had to buy eight for $1.70 at the country store. "That just about broke my heart," said Mrs. Goodhue. "They'll tell you that the farmers are getting good prices for their hogs. But there's an awful difference between what we get and what we pay over the counter...
...decades of the 19th Century, a mighty competitor arose to threaten British trade. U.S. productivity caught and then far surpassed Britain's. The leadership in world finance and trade passed into American hands. Declining Britain could no longer earn enough abroad to pay for what she needed to buy abroad to maintain her living standard...
...which I am a member will ever subsidize housing." During the election, when a group of Prince Edward Island fish canners came to ask for a subsidy, St. Laurent shocked his political advisers by turning them down flat. Said he: "I have no intention of using public funds to buy up fish...
When investment houses refused to buy Oregon bonds on the grounds that the state was technically insolvent, the state attorney general ruled the measure invalid. But pensions would still cost $26 million for the next two years-as compared with...
...merry conversions were to continue. Said he to Shopkeeper Handa: "A truly religious person is ready to sacrifice his all to save other people's souls. Under the circumstances, it would be most noble on your part to sell your best clothing. Thus we shall be able to buy an altar...