Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...childless couples who were too sheepish to carry them home. In Finland there are hula marathons that set contestants to twirling hoops about the hips, neck and knees all at once. In Japan, where some 3.000.000 hoops have been sold, people queued up in Tokyo department stores to buy tickets enabling them to get hoops later. In Johannesburg only the white kids can afford the 65? hoops, but charitable organizations have begun handing out hoops to poor Negro children. And in Geneva, the city of Calvin, the familiar phrase to express bewildered surprise has now become "Hula...
...been hard pressed to compete with the wonders of the Missile and Atomic Age; for nearly a year Chicago's H. H. Windsor family has been trying to sell Popular Mechanics (circ. 1,325,735)-Last week it found a buyer: Hearst Corp.'s magazine division.-The buy was shrewdly calculated; magazine circulation is up 23% since 1950, while Hearst's 17 newspapers have been collectively losing ground. Hearst hopes to pump new life into the old Mechanics, but to the staff's handymen the transaction was a sad event. Mourned one of them: "When...
...Seat, veteran fleshpeddler and music lover, was sore. The singer whose contract he wanted to buy had everything-a real rock 'n' roll talent and a real gone name. But Seat only had $25,000 to offer, and the kid's record contract alone was worth $40,000. So Elvis Presley stayed with Colonel Tom Parker back there in the fall of 1955 (RCA Victor got the record contract), and all Agent Seat could do was to try to latch onto a suitable substitute. He promptly chased down to Memphis after some cornball named Harold Jenkins...
Taking ads in New York City newspapers, the strikers, who want a 10?-an-hour increase, pleaded: "Don't boycott Q-Tips -buy them please. If your druggist says he is out, ask him to order more. We want you to create such a demand-such a backlog of orders-that our employer will have to open the plant and call us back to work...
...Visit. A rich witch offers to buy the life of a man who once wronged her -for a mere billion dollars. This surrealist, symbol-clogged but fascinating fable may be Alfred Lunt's and Lynn Fontanne's last visit to Broadway...