Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, a Soviet trade expert read off a blunt message from Nikita Khrushchev: "Countries that are interested in increasing their exports to the Soviet Union should increase their purchases from it." Most of what the Russians are willing to sell (e.g., tinned salmon), the British are unwilling to buy. Britain already imports more from the Russians than it sells to them. Besides, Khrushchev made plain, he is interested in East-West trade only "provided that credits are extended us," and if the British do not want trade that badly, "we shall not take umbrage...
...portly grandfather in diamonds. The shop signs of Dar es Salaam in Tanganyika are almost all Indian-V. B. Patel, the timber merchant; H. J. Peerani, the baker; Mohanlal, the tailor. In Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Indians are called Banyans, and elsewhere whatever the African wants to buy-a bolt of cotton, a kerosene lamp, a bicycle-it is almost invariably an Indian dukah wallah in a filthy, tin-roofed shop that sells to him. In Kenya, Asians pay one-third of the colony's indirect taxes and run some of Nairobi's smartest shops; in Zanzibar...
Harder South. Treatment of Asians varies with the geographical latitudes and gets harder farther south. In Nyasaland almost no economic restrictions are placed upon the Asians, but in Southern Rhodesia a Hindu may not buy liquor without a special permit. A Moslem attorney from Nyasaland, working on a case in the capital of Southern Rhodesia, suddenly found that he could not use the washroom or take the elevator. In Dar es Salaam an Asian may play cricket with Europeans, but he will not then be able to join them for a drink at the Gumkhana Club. In the Union...
Clint, who sells tickets, interrupted: "Red tickets or nothing, lady. We aim to please, but you gotta buy a red ticket...
...know!" Jessie exclaimed. "We can buy four pink tickets instead of two red ones...