Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual loans of $550 million are a fraction of the $5 billion in string-free U.S. economic aid (and most of DLF funds have been spent in the U.S. anyway). But the order touched off editorials that the U.S. was moving backward to a "Buy American" program calculated to subsidize high-priced American products that could not otherwise compete in world markets. Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, fired off a barrage of hostile questions to DLF Director Vance Brand in the name of free trade...
...have their wives follow them when they leave Korea. The marriage was just a black-market partnership in the first place." A PX official backed up part of her complaint: "I have seen a Korean wife walk out laden with packages-and be back within an hour to buy more...
Across the country, workers responded to Castro's appeal for funds to buy arms abroad. Around the clock, Havana television stations paraded donors, small and large. Some unions set a 4% deduction from salaries. In Pinar del Rio, 400 common prisoners pledged to stop smoking for two days and send in the 20? that each saved. Since Castro apparently cannot get the 17 Hawker Hunter jets that he wants from England (TIME, Oct. 26), he promised to buy planes "anywhere I can." Even Russia? asked a reporter. "Even the moon...
...then the campaign against Dubois began losing its comic aspects. Several weeks ago Havana's Radio Mambi started carrying, at 15-minute intervals, pleas for loyal Cubans to contribute their centavos to buy a huge bucket for Dubois to soak his head in. Anti-Dubois signs appeared on shop fronts on the Prado, Havana's main street. The press, especially the Communist daily Hoy, began denouncing Jules Dubois...
...equals only 1.9% of income after taxes, slightly less than the rise in 1955. Despite higher dollar auto sales this year, the net increase on auto credit after repayments on past credit will be only slightly more than half that in 1955, thus leaving room for credit expansion to buy 1960 models...