Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hound him back to domesticity. Yet, an intruding enemy can unite all men in common cause. When a teen age peasant girl (Patrizia Valturri) is entertained by the husbands in an afternoon of collective amiability, and later hauls them before a judge, they take up a collection to buy her off and rescue the community's honor...
...hospital nurse at birth) has been sailing-in dead earnest-ever since his daddy dropped him into a dinghy at five. Starting from scratch as a messenger boy in a Wall Street brokerage house, Emil Sr. had already climbed so far as an investor that he could buy "Brook Hills," a 43-acre estate in White Plains, N.Y. George Gershwin was a frequent visitor, wrote most of Porgy and Bess in a guest cottage tucked away on a corner of the grounds. The Mosbachers wintered comfortably in Palm Beach; summers were given oyer to sailing on Long Island Sound, first...
...related situation, churches can operate a profitable, unrelated business and not be subject to taxation. A church can even buy a business, finance the purchase with a mortgage, lease back the business to the original operators, take in most of the earnings, and still be tax-exempt. An unrelated-business tax should definitely be extended to churches...
Along with the Kaiser interest, Ford is buying a 14% share in Willys-Overland do Brasil held by Renault of France, whose Gordinis roll off the same assembly lines. The remaining shares are held by 45,000 Brazilian investors who now, to their delight, become partners of Henry Ford. Renault, which is Kaiser's partner in an Argentine car company called Industrias Kaiser Argentina, will acquire a controlling share of that firm. Renault will buy up a major part of Kaiser's 30% interest, as well as 14% held by two Argentine banks. Ford will also acquire Transax...
...Britons buy more sweets than tea. In fact, at an average 25 Ibs. each per year, they are the world's most dedicated candy eaters. Hence the excitement last week after a decree handed down at London's Queen's Bench Court. There, concluding 43 days of hearings on the question of continued fixed retail prices in the candy industry, a panel of bewigged judges decided that they should be unfixed. Britain's five major candymakers-George Bassett & Co. Ltd., Cadbury Brothers Ltd., J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd., John Mackintosh & Sons Ltd., and Rowntree & Co. Ltd.-were...