Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caught in a thrill burglary, and his parents quietly reimbursed his victims. He dodged jail by joining the army, but the French army, which takes all kinds, shortly dismissed him as "asocial and undesirable." So his parents decided to buy him a couple of bars to run. When the bars failed, they bought him a book shop, hoping that the contagion of handling books might improve his mind. But by that time Georges, who had taken to wearing a shoulder holster and revolver, had already carved out another life on his own. Last week he was one of the most...
...aroused peasants had made their point. The Italian government promised to buy $160,000 worth of potatoes at fair prices, and the Naples city government offered to let the farmers peddle their crops on the city streets without paying vendors' taxes...
Others are not so optimistic. The supermarkets and chains have become so powerful that they are often in a position to force a middle-sized producer to turn out a private label for his product for them at a lower price, or they will not buy from him at all. The real fear is that the supermarkets, in their increasing competition with each other, will put such a premium on profit margins that they will squeeze out more and more name brands to the ultimate harm of the consumer, who has benefited most from the new products that have been...
Last week the Agriculture Department began to mix the same foul old omelet. After listening to a delegation of New Jersey egg farmers and their complaints about the egg surplus, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson issued orders to buy millions of dollars worth of frozen eggs from the nation's commercial egg-freezing plants as an indirect aid to prop up falling egg prices. The new egg-buying program is on top of $16 million Benson has spent since last October buying dried eggs, mostly for the Government-aided school-lunch program...
...finally took over as chairman in 1956, when former chairman N. Baxter Jackson reached retirement age. Never one to stop growing. Helm charts the bank's rising deposits on his office wall. In 1954 he saw an opportunity to grow in one jump. He urged Chairman Jackson to buy out the century-old Corn Exchange Bank, which had 78 branches and $774 million in deposits, and paid a premium of $25 a share to get the Corn Exchange stock. The price proved right. The merged bank's deposits rose to $3.2 billion in 1958. With the New York...