Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighbor always mixes horse manure with food given his dog. Is this good? A. Horse manure is rich in riboflavin, but it would be better to buy vitamin-B compounds...
...twelve children, Turner grew up on a ranch in Texas, struck oil as a wildcatter nearly 30 years ago, and bought his own ranch near Midland, Texas. He began buying thoroughbreds to improve his cow-pony stock, as an afterthought sent some to California to race. When World War II started, he shipped his racers back to Texas, and turned them loose on the range to breed with his cow ponies. Failing in efforts to buy established horses after the war, he decided to try his luck abroad, began buying Irish and British yearlings...
Hazel-eyed Phil Ford was no novice at the entertainment game either. When he was a kid around Alameda, Calif., his aunt ran a dancing school, and the Depression saw him doing soft-shoe routines at small theaters to help buy the family groceries. World War II dumped him into the 84th Division, where the commanding general, Alexander Boiling, used to join Sergeant Ford in little skits. Chances are they also burdened Phil with his present style of humor. Sample...
...Treasury must even compete with other federally backed obligations to find customers-often coming off second best. Many investors who once insisted on a Government bond are now happy to buy a Government-guaranteed mortgage. Not only is the interest rate higher than what the Government pays on bonds, but the investor does not have to wait until maturity date to get his money back...
...page policy statement, some of the strongest bids for free trade were deleted. Gone was the sentence: "For the benefit of the economy of the nation as a whole, business and Government should encourage increased imports into the U.S." Also struck out was the chamber's opposition to "Buy American legislation." A chamber spokesman denied that the chamber had changed its views, called the alterations in the text "little sops that helped quiet the opposition." But he conceded: "Now, the chamber has no policy on Buy American. From being against it, now we are officially neutral...