Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antique dealer and longtime advocate of mutual funds, I wondered whose good taste was responsible for using what looks like an old Staffordshire sugar bowl on June 1 cover. If it belongs to Artist Artzybasheff, I'd like to buy...
...late Mrs. Artzy-basheff's great-grandmother as a wedding gift. The set survived three ownerships and remained intact until the Artzybasheffs moved from New York City to Connecticut when one cup was broken. If Dealer Hartman has a matching cup, Artist Artzybasheff would like to buy...
...wife and I decided in 1916 to get married. Since I, like all other second lieutenants, was always overdrawn at the bank, I decided that I ought to show a little more sense of responsibility. So I began to buy a small insurance policy. Well, I gave up smoking ready-made cigarettes and went to Bull Durham and the papers. I had to make a great many sacrifices to buy that small insurance policy. Then, 30 years later, the company came around to pay it off. It was so small that I would have been ashamed to ask my wife...
...Greek Cypriot who came to Britain 20 years ago. In 1953, after her husband died of tuberculosis, Eftihia got an allowance from the National Assistance Board, but it was too meager to support her four children, three of whom also suffered from TB. And so, in order to buy eggs and milk for them, Eftihia Christos began working far into each night, sewing hooks and eyes on dresses. Because she failed to report her extra ?2 to ?3 weekly earnings to the National Assistance Board, as required, Magistrate Geoffrey Rose, 69, sentenced Widow Christos to two months in jail...
With a fat second quarter about over, U.S. businessmen looked forward to an even more prosperous third. The National Association of Purchasing Agents, which keeps sensitive fingers on the economy's pulse through the men who buy for major U.S. businesses, reported that 42% of its members expect business to be better in the third quarter than in the second, and 58% believe that the year's second half will easily top the first half. Only 29% foresee a third-quarter decline...