Word: buying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Home and Aid Society and the Cradle Society. But it looked as if the stock might have to be sold to help pay inheritance and estate taxes. That posed for Colonel McCormick the horrible prospect of acquiring some minority, but possibly strange and unfriendly, partners. He began dickering to buy the stock...
...record-buying public, this schizoid spectacle has been confusing, to say the least. Why go on buying the old 78s, when 45s or 33-⅓s are obviously the coming thing? But which of the two new types to buy? Columbia's Long Playing 33⅓, s whose microgrooves can hold a whole symphony on two sides, have an advantage in convenience over Victor's small 453 for long classical selections. Also, Columbia's seven-inchers are quite as good for popular music as RCA's seven-inchers, though there are as yet few automatic record...
...buy a Columbia 33⅓-r.p.m. turntable, plug it into the old 78 r.p.m. machine, and call it a solution? Nearly a million record buyers have done just that. But millions of others have hesitated. RCA Victor has by far the world's largest recording roster of fine artists. Would the rest of the industry be pulled into RCA's strong orbit? Until they had the answer, many record collectors stopped buying altogether...
...exorcise the speed demon, top executives of RCA Victor, Columbia and Decca have been huddling in quiet meetings. Last week there was still no agreement. Until the industry pulled itself together, record fans had two sensible alternatives : postpone buying or buy a turntable that plays all three speeds. There are about ten on the market, ranging in price from $15 to more than...
Last week, beefy, blue-eyed Tighe (rhymes with buy) Woods invited newsmen to his air-conditioned Washington office and shyly announced that he had a surprise for them: he had built a house to sell for $6,750, including a ½-acre lot and a septic tank. Explained Woods: "I thought it was about time somebody did something about housing the guy who makes $50 a week. The building industry told me it couldn't be done, so I decided to find out for myself...