Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against Johnson and Alabama's George Wallace. In a Nixon-Johnson-Wallace race, Harris showed Nixon 39%, Johnson 39%, Wallace 12%. Substituting Rockefeller for Nixon, the result was Rockefeller 41%, Johnson 34%, Wallace 14%. As if he had already seen the poll, Rocky went out last week to buy a rackful of new suits-the first he has bought since the 1964 campaign...
Socks & Mattresses. Telephone and telex lines to London, the world's largest gold market, were swamped as buy ers throughout Europe demanded gold, gold and more gold. More than 200 tons, or $220 million worth, changed hands on the London gold market in one day to establish a new single-day trading record. Where gold could be bought directly, mob scenes erupted and the price soared. Ten times the usual number of buyers jammed the gold pit in the cellar of the Paris Bourse, and fist fights broke out as the price on one day rose...
...dozens of nations, from Austria and Italy to Sweden and Ireland, ordinary citizens rushed out to buy gold coins to stuff socks and mattresses, cleaning out numismatic stocks virtually overnight. In London, a $20 U.S. gold piece sold for $56, a ? 1 British sovereign for $10.20. In Geneva, the Swiss lined up at tellers' windows to convert their savings to gold bars. There was even a run in Hong Kong on gold jewelry. All told, between $1 billion and $2.5 billion in gold may have changed hands within ten days in London-as much as 10% of the total...
...longer sell gold to all takers at $35 an ounce. What would likely be decided in Washington was a "two-tier" pricing system for gold, by which the speculators would have to conduct their transactions in a free market (see BUSINESS). Without the U.S.'s willingness to buy back speculative hoards, their price just might prove in the end to be lower than many of the hoarders think...
...goods and services that the individuals buy," he writes, "control their needs and petrify their faculties. They have dozens of newspapers and magazines that espouse the same ideals. They have innumerable gadgets that keep them occupied and divert their attention from the real issue-which is the awareness that they could both work less and determine their own needs and satisfactions...