Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times-Star began to lose ground to the Post, which combined flaring headlines and flamboyant crime stories with solid crusades for clean city government. In 1951 the Post passed the Times-Star in circulation (153,230 v. 150,489). Struggling for survival, the Times-Star twice tried to buy the third and largest paper in town, the morning Enquirer ("Solid Cincinnati Reads the Cincinnati Enquirer"), which has a morning and Sunday monopoly. But in 1956 Scripps-Howard bought control of the Enquirer for $4,059,000 (TIME...
SMALL CAR FOR CHRYSLER is in the works. Chrysler wants to import and distribute French Simcas, is dickering to buy Ford's 15% interest in Simca, plus big block of stock from Simca treasury. Price of Simca sedans...
Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 is constantly popping up on playbills. But when you buy your ticket you don't know what you're going to see, for Tonight is a nonet of one-acters from which any given production is supposed to choose three. Unfortunately, the nine are of uneven quality; and so, perforce, will be the 84 possible shows...
...retailer to think twice before eating more deeply into his stocks. The wise businessmen will tend to keep inventories level, or increase them a bit as a hedge against possible emergency. Said a Cleveland machine tool manufacturer: "Our story to customers is that now is the time to buy before we get jammed." In the same way, businessmen look for industrial expansion, now in the doldrums, to pick up speed again. Many companies, particularly in heavy industries, can be expected to examine their present capacity with an eye to future contingencies, dust off expansion plans they had previously deferred during...
NORTHEAST AIRLINES will try to gain altitude with a major re-equipment program. For $15 million, it will buy nine British Vickers Viscount turboprops, expects to put them into service between New York, Washington, Boston, Montreal next month...