Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unbridled avarice and violence. The town is stonily accustomed to all sorts of trouble. In Cabazon last month, a Four-square Gospel preacher and a gun-toting bandit-who was shot to death by Los Angeles cops the next night-fought a grim, barefisted battle for the right to buy the festering town dump. In Cabazon last fortnight, two octogenarians battled over a woman...
...bought only modern carpets, ivory and porcelain. This time, taken down winding Peking streets to out-of-the-way antique shops, Nessim said he had stumbled onto a marvelous bronze figure of a six-armed, three-faced god crowned with a headdress of flames, excitedly asked if he might buy it. Told that he might, Nessim realized he was getting an official green light, started off on a buying spree...
Along the Vegas Strip, there are no clocks to worry the gambler about the passing hours, and fur shops stay open until 3 a.m. (a big winner might be in the mood to buy), but it would all get pretty dull without the shows. To hold the customers' attention, the gaudy hotel nightclubs rely on big old names (Sinatra, Dietrich, Tucker), but they also reach out for newcomers. Last week new acts got a big play in the neon-painted desert...
...Namatjira (Flying Ant) used his fame to press for equal rights for his outcast fellow aborigines, but he enjoyed many of their tribal ways, basked in the adulation of some 60 relatives among whom he freely divided his income, finally won full citizenship and with it the right to buy liquor, which he hauled out to his friends for some wild times, ended up in jail for three months, where his health was fatally impaired...
...Justice Department, expects a merger may well come off before 1960. Bubbled Oilman Getty in London: "A Tidewater-Skelly merger is a natural." Tidewater, which last week reported first-half earnings up from $279,000 last year to $18.6 million this year, is primarily an importer and refiner, must buy half the oil it refines. Skelly, its first-half earnings up from $10.5 million to $14.5 million, produces about 40% more oil than it refines. Tidewater's refineries and market outlets are concentrated on both coasts; Skelly's are mostly in the midcontinent...