Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill, most importantly, would lower the racial barrier for Negroes wishing to buy or rent any of some 80% of the nation's housing units. Dis crimination would be forbidden in about 52.6 million dwellings, including millions of single-family houses...
...called the commission's criti cism "ridiculous," adding: "The stockpiling of heavy weapons wouldn't mean anything to anybody if everybody obeyed the law." Atlanta Police Chief Herbert Jenkins, one of the eleven commissioners, took exception to his colleagues' complaints about the report. "I'll buy it, I stand with it, I fall with it," said Jenkins...
...George Christian reaffirmed the obviously firm U.S. intention of continuing to sell gold at $35 an oz., the rush only quickened at week's end. Bullion dealers reported that hoarders and speculators from all over the world were seizing what many believed to be a last chance to buy gold that cheaply...
Trailblazing. Last week the stock-brokerage firm of Goodbody & Co. took a trailblazing step toward the obvious remedy: more automation. It put into operation a new electronic system to speed the reporting of buy and sell orders from the floor of the Big Board and the American Exchange to its own back offices. Manufactured by the Bunker-Ramo Corp., the new equipment resembles a miniature television receiver mounted on a small adding machine. It enables floor clerks to send the details of every transaction to the offices at a rate of 110 characters per second, more than ten times faster...
...screen so that the clerk can proofread it before pushing the "transmit" button. Best of all, the data is fed directly into a computer that automatically relays it to the proper branch office. The system thus eliminates one of the most time-consuming aspects of back-office paperwork: matching buy and sell reports from exchanges with each customer's original order and passing the word along to the salesman...