Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called for "a trained army of international military servants" to guarantee peace in a disarmed world, provision for peaceful means of achieving national ends, and commitment to foreign economical aid by the United States. "If you make a package of that," he said, "anybody in his right mind would buy...
Louis sells maps and when two customers suggest it would be a shame if the maps they buy get blown overboard from their cruiser. Louis manoeuvres himself into the position of being able to sell the men 50 copies of each map, should they desire. But of course Louis meets a girl, a girl who despite her great wealth and social advantage manages to show him sympathy because he is quite unlike anyone she has met before. Straining against their destinies--his to own a dozen sullen Manhattan towers by denial of himself, hers to marry the man she went...
...iron operators, as much as $2,000 for big-name acts), keep their owners in the top tax brackets. The little 40-milers (trailer shows making short jumps between towns) sometimes let a Colonel Alter save something more than a Philadelphia bankroll, sometimes are hard put to buy groceries. But big shows or 40-milers, the carnies were migrating south last week, running from the bloomers (un profitable nights) and hunting down the red ones (good nights). And tough as times were, only the first-of-Mayers (fairweather carnies who are not really "with it") were sneaking off to steady...
STUDEBAKER-PACKARD plans to go into show business. A. M. Sonnabend, the man ailing Studebaker invited in to find nonauto firms to merge with it (TIME, Aug. 18), is dickering to buy Imperial Records (sales: $10 million) for stock and cash, also smaller Cadence Records (sales: about...
...project was launched in 1945, when local merchants pressed the city to do something drastic for the slum area. It took until 1952 for the city to condemn the land and put it up for sale, but no builders would buy, because the city's plans for the project seemed too high-class for the moderate rents it wanted to charge. Finally, in 1954, a group of citizens, ranging from Henry Ford to the U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther, obtained a 90-day option. With James W. Bell, Detroit City Planner, as coordinator, the group raised...