Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British during World War II, when each person got only one egg a week. Egyptians are now eating macaroni instead of rice, which is being exported to earn cash. The cotton crop is again badly infested by leaf worm, but because there is not enough money to buy insecticide, youngsters have been sent into the fields to pick the worm off the plants by hand. The tourist tide has dried, the guides at the pyramids and Sphinx sit playing trictrac (a variation of backgammon) with each other. Egypt is losing $5,000,000 a week in revenues from the closing...
...latest vehicle-an 1874 carriage, fundamentally yellow with wild flowers rampant, which was triumphantly drawn up to Lennon's mansion in Weybridge, Surrey, by two white horses in front with two more trotting at the rear. The new Beatlemobile, which cost Lennon about $10,000 to buy and have refurbished, "is really a toy for four-year-old Julian," said John, who is vacationing en famille in Greece with the Ringo Starrs and Paul McCartney. "But I expect my wife and I will play with it as well...
Last week, in one of the year's more unusual mergers, Geneen agreed to buy Levitt & Sons, Inc., the world's largest home builder, for $92 million worth of ITT stock. The building company, which showed a whole industry how to change the face of postwar suburbia, would operate as an autonomous subsidiary under President William J. Levitt...
...most successful is Frontier's halffare standby plan, under which any passenger who cannot be accommodated on the first flight to his destination is guaranteed a seat on the next one. Even bus companies wince as Frontier boasts that "a bus ticket and $5" will buy a jet ride from Denver to St. Louis or Tucson or Billings, Mont...
...there since 1957, but until recently has stayed out of the passenger-car field. Five months ago, Ford began building Galaxies in Brazil; by May they were selling almost as well as Willys-Over-land's boxy Aero-Willys and Itamaratys. Impressed by the possibilities, Ford bid to buy out its nearest competitor and acquire not only better production plants but also a more extensive sales and service network...