Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ZILS & Rubles. Comrade academicians, the majority of whom are not even party members, eat at special restaurants, whiz about in big, two-tone ZILS, spend their summers at a Black Sea Riviera resort of their own, are allowed to subscribe to any foreign publications they please and to buy luxury goods denied others. By Russian standards, their salaries are princely; Nesmeyanov makes 30,000 tax-free rubles ($7,500) a month, besides thousands more for teaching, lecturing, appearing on TV or writing books. Even after an academician dies, his privileges continue. His widow may get a pension and a lump...
...Buying cheap (2? a word for articles) and selling dear ($298 to $1,500 a set), the Britannica has since earned the university some $5,500,000. Its contributors include 43 Nobel Prizewinners. Editor-in-Chief Walter Yust and a staff of 150 keep a continuous watch on the timeliness of its 43,512 articles. Editor Yust, onetime Philadelphia literary critic, defends the Britannica against an array of complaints, including pro-British bias (although the encyclopedia has been U.S.-owned for half a century) and Americanization. A more serious objection sometimes heard: that the work is too scholarly for laymen...
MACHINE-TOOL ORDERS, one of the economy's barometers, fell 22% from March to April after three months of climb. New orders in April totaled $28.3 million, with almost one-fourth from foreign lands, where automakers continue to buy U.S. tools...
...prices climbed to the highest in nine months. Canada had a flurry in low-priced gold shares. In Wall Street, where gold shares have steadily climbed in the past year, Investment Bankers Dillon, Read let out that they are forming an investment trust ($30 million to start) to buy South African gold shares, thus adding another fillip to the London buying...
...until the present crisis as 'the new leisure.' We may lack a few of the refinements of Rome's final decadence, but we do have the two-hour lunch, the three-day weekend and the all-day coffee break. And, if you want to, you can buy for $275 a jeweled pillbox, with a built-in musical alarm that reminds you -but not too harshly-that it's time to take your tranquilizer...