Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advertiser of color-television sets or rent-a-cars, for example, the pivotally important fact is that Sullivan pulls only 16.3% of the TV families earning more than $10.000 a year, while NBC's Dean Martin attracts 23.4% in that bracket. Not surprisingly, then, Zenith and Hertz buy time on Martin while, in the main, mass-consumption products such as Nabisco crackers, Wesson oil and Hunt's tomato paste are pushed on Sullivan...
...soon as the Bennett St. repair yards become available, the Library Corporation is prepared for site-clearing, planning, and financing the complex. Massachusetts has already agreed to provide over $6 million to buy the site from the MBTA
...wait, by himself, on a street corner in Old Beirut that night. Ignoring his disappointment at having to miss Beirut night life, Cross waited in the narrow streets of the old city. He suspected that the people he was meeting thought he had enough money with him to buy their scrolls on the spot and didn't quite know what they were planning to do with...
...from 5?% to 6%. Watching the minimal extent of the fallout, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler pronounced himself "very encouraged" over the dollar's performance against the resulting speculative pressure in foreign exchange markets. The biggest effect-accompanied by some temporary alarums-came in the gold market. Speculators poured buy orders into the eight-nation London gold pool. In a few hours, they snapped up an estimated $23 million worth of the metal. On Thanksgiving, sales not only shot up to a record $112 million in London, but the gold rush also spread to Paris and Zurich. The pressure, mainly...
...eminent visiting Frenchman was being shown through the Art Institute of Chicago by its then president, Chauncey McCormick, when he asked in astonishment: "How can you possibly afford all these marvelous impressionist pictures?" The proud response was: "We do not buy them; we inherit them from our grandmothers...