Word: buying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take exception to your editorial comment that the public is not "clamoring" to buy Joan Crawford? Having had the privilege of producing her last four pictures and starting on her fifth, I can assure you that the only people in America who like Miss Crawford are. the moviegoers . . . Since when is "sophisticated fortyishness" not attractive? I firmly believe that this country is growing up, and in so doing can have other tastes than dewy-eyed youngsters on their screens . . . Miss Crawford's legions of followers are larger today than at any previous time, while her career has never been...
Clark makes his comparisons by means of an "international unit" (IU). One IU equals the amount of goods and services that $1 could buy in the U.S. during the period 1925-1934 (see chart). Clark takes his figures for Russia from official Soviet statistics, but adjusts them in an involved process of his own invention. (His former computations about the Soviet economy were at one time heavily criticized; since then, however, they have been strikingly confirmed by independent research of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board...
...Houston Press, Oilman-Hotelman Glenn McCarthy raked up some 25 McCarthy rumors and denied them all. Insisted McCarthy: there is no feud between him and fellow Texan Jesse Jones; there is no such thing as a minimum tip at his Shamrock hotel; he is not trying to buy a newspaper, a movie studio, Catalina Island or the St. Louis Browns...
...indulge in embroidered shirts for $15, embossed holsters at $15, fringed and decorated leather chaps at $12, and even cowboy pajamas for $2.98. To have a well-dressed cowboy in the home, parents can plunk out as much as $83.40 for a single outfit. For another $42.50, they can buy a gabardine shirt, trousers and felt hat for a cowgirl. Even at those prices, retailers have found little buyers' resistance...
Supply & Demand. In El Paso, Raymond R. Campana, arrested for having subversive pamphlets in his possession, groused to police: "Nobody wants to buy them in this capitalistic town...