Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sang songs, answered questions about the U.S. in serviceable Ivy League Russian. Over at the usually solemn Tchaikovsky Conservatory, two members of the Yale group, U.S. Jazzmen Dwight Mitchell (piano) and Willie Ruff (bass), fractured a cheering, stomping crowd of Russians. In Manhattan, customers waited in long lines to buy tickets for the Russian Music and Dance Festival, scheduled to open this week at Madison Square Garden...
...forced the Soviet Union to pay "in gold" for American relief sent to starving Russians in 1921-23. "I was in Russia in 1922," said Herter, who was Herbert Hoover's assistant at the time, "and I went down the Volga. The money which the Congress sent to buy food for the hungry people of Russia was a gift from the American people. You probably don't remember, because you were too young." Replied Kozlov: "I remember very well because I was hungry." Nixon broke in to say that Herbert Hoover had recently shown him a letter testifying...
...Most Unpopular Man." Once a pupil, Khrushchev still seemed to believe all that his masters had taught about conditions in the U.S. "You became so rich." he told Harriman. "that until now you have been able to bribe or buy off your workers." That was why free elections in the capitalist world are such a "farce."Though Konrad Adenauer had been elected Chancellor again and again, Khrushchev seemed to think that he was still the "most unpopular man in Germany." His successor would soon enough have to reckon with the power of Soviet missiles. At one point, Khrushchev indulged...
...Hughes Tool Co. controls TWA, plans to sell six TWA jets on order to Pan Am to ease financial squeeze. The deal: for $40 million, Hughes Tool will turn over six new long-range Boeing 707s to Pan Am, beginning in December. Hughes will also get an option to buy Pan Am's six shorter-range 707s for $32-to-$33 million-if it can raise the cash. Hughes has a $320 million commitment to buy 63 jets for TWA. Even though TWA has finally climbed into the black, Hughes has trouble raising that much money...
Beware Deadbeats. Real Estatesman Nickerson's basic action verb is Borrow ("The road to riches is paved with borrowed money''). The parts of his scheme are equally simple: 1) "Buy only property that needs improvement"; 2) "Make selective improvements that increase value," e.g., paint, landscape; 3) "Keep selling at a profit and reinvesting...