Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MANY U.S. military men agree that $41 billion a year is enough to buy adequate defense for the nation, but few believe that the $41 billion-plus budget for fiscal 1961 is going to buy the best or even adequate defense. Though drafted over months of round-the-clock work by able planners, the proposed defense budget leaves the U.S. with cause for rising worry over how much security it gets for its tax dollar. Reason: the 1961 budget, like many of its predecessors, represents slow compromise with the fast, uncompromising changes of modern-weapons technology. Result: it spreads...
...buy this steak, see, an' it's supposed to be proim. Well, Alfred, he bites into it an' he sez what kennel did you get this steak at, an' I sez it's proim an' he sez, yeh, it's proim hawssmeat. But whaddaya gonna do, they're all doin...
...reply to the U.S. protest, Cuban Minister of State Raúl Roa delivered an 18-page "white paper," rewriting history, charging economic aggression and warning that Cuba will buy arms and planes "from whoever may be willing to supply them," i.e., Russia, if need be. He patted Cuba's new government on the back for "unequaled sportsmanship" in remaining friendly to the U.S. people, recounted "sacrifices" Cuba had made, e.g., selling sugar at low prices to the U.S. during two world wars. He brushed off Cuba's expropriation of U.S. property as involving only "transitory interests...
...good. He blithely took the money, and then the fun began. Already aware that he could not just fly out of the U.S.S.R. with a wad of Soviet currency, Author Caldwell set out valiantly to spend his capitalist-size bankroll there. But he could find almost nothing exportable to buy. In the end, Caldwell returned some 19,500 rubles to the publisher for safekeeping, ignored blandishments to hang around and live like a millionaire (a Black Sea villa, etc.) until his royalties...
...strike began with Portland's 54-member Stereotypers' Local No. 48, whose key demand was that four-man crews be used on a new German automatic press plate casting machine, designed for operation by one man, that the Oregonian plans to buy. The Journal refused to bargain separately, and the stereotypers walked off both papers, to be followed by members of all the other newspaper unions. At that point the executives, editorial-page writers, ad salesmen, secretaries and other nonunion employees of the Oregonian and the Journal put on yellow aprons and ran off a joint, jury...