Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wondering where the devil this geek got all that garbage. He is often at his best when his material is worst-a handy knack for a man who has to come up with 60 laughs a minute. When a gag clunks to the floor, he'll say: "Never buy jokes from people on streets. Give 'em a quarter but never buy a joke from...
...Comedy Writing, was not in manuscript but on tape. Its quotes and footnotes contained excerpts from Fred Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, and Bob Hope shows. Carson's analysis of timing and his appreciation of other crucial matters was somewhat naive ("A good comedian can get you to buy his sponsor's products"), but "not bad," he insists, "for 18 years...
...helped ease the Chief of Naval Operations out of his job. Congress, too, filled the air with investigations over what critics called "the flying Edsel." So cloudy were the F-111's skies that even last year General Dynamics President Roger Lewis could not guess how big the buy might be: "We don't know how many children we'll have," he shrugged. "We're just engaged...
...been desperately short of capital needed to expand its 20,000-a-year truck output and increase its 15% share of the heavy-duty-truck market. Signal had hardly settled the Mack merger terms, involving some $185 million in securities, when it reached in yet another direction to buy, for some $17 million in securities, Arizona Bancorporation, a Phoenix-based holding company with interests in banking, land, steel and insurance...
...Montgomery Ward & Co. scotched weeks of Wall Street rumors that it was a ripe-and-ready takeover target by announcing plans for an acquisition of its own. Robert E. Brooker, chairman of the Chicago-based retailing and mail-order giant, said Ward would buy Los Angeles' MSL Industries Inc. for some $90 million in securities as a first step toward building "a substantial manufacturing complex." MSL last year rang up $116 million in sales of industrial fasteners, plastics and other products, earned $6.4 million-which is just the sort of tonic Ward can use. Suffering from tight pressure...