Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watching both antagonists from a hill were two companies of Royal Laotian infantry, ordered there by Laotian Commander in Chief Ouane Rathikoune, who depends heavily on his cut in the opium trade to buy the loyalty of his soldiers. When Chan tried to cross the Mekong in barges, the Chinese opened fire with everything in their armory. The Laotian commander tried to negotiate a truce and, failing, withdrew to watch the melee...
Worst of all, the fight seemed to settle nothing. Both sides went off to lick their wounds, buy fresh armaments and ammunition, and presumably have another go at the flower power struggle with all cannon blazing...
...chain was started in 1923, when Louis H. Brush, a young publisher with two Ohio papers, and Roy Moore, sales manager for King Features, raised $550,000 to buy the Marion (Ohio) Star from President Warren Harding two months before his death...
...Paul Primock, quietly got a court order for execution on the judgment. To satisfy the debt, the sheriff was directed by Primock to seize title to Jackson's property and sell it. The sale was just as quiet, and Paul Primock, ostensibly acting for Sears, was allowed to buy all of Jackson's buildings and acreage for $647.71. It was all done so discreetly that Jackson knew nothing about it until eleven months later, when he tried to borrow money and the loan company discovered that he had no property to borrow against...
...order to sell the land, his lawyers had signed away his right to sue in connection with any of the previous land transactions. Now his situation was becoming desperate. Nearing 60, he was unable to find regular employment. Because he owned land (the desert which no one would buy), he was ineligible for welfare. He didn't qualify for unemployment insurance because he had been self-employed...