Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cooking seems to have escaped me completely somehow. Nevertheless, I watch Julia Child's program every week, and then the following day, I run out and buy wire whisks, watercress, souffle pans and carbon-steel knives. I have also acquired a modest but impressive assortment of wines and exotic spices. Of course, I have never used any of these things. And I certainly would never have the courage to try one of her recipes. I throw the watercress out each time I clean the refrigerator...
...because Americans can afford the "better" things, and you state that the only real waste is the waste of human resources. Did it not occur to the writer that the majority of Americans spend their lives in jobs they don't like mainly to earn more money to buy-and to waste-such items? Are these people not wasting their lives in the "real" sense of the word...
...buying Christmas season begins, there are crosscurrents in the mood of the U.S. consumer. On one hand, the Commerce Department reported last week that fewer consumers than a year ago plan to buy such "heavy" items as houses, expensive household appliances, or cars, though the tens of thousands of people at the annual Detroit Auto Show certainly seemed enthusiastic. On the other hand, J. C. Penney, Associated Dry Goods, R. H. Macy and Gimbels reported all-time-high earnings for the quarter ending in October, and most major retailers predict a green, green Christmas. Behind these contradictions is the fact...
...export credits and insurance, have even begun to lend money to importers of French goods. France sees a great market in Russia. Last week Debre jetted to Moscow in hopes of putting some spunk into the two-year-old Franco-Soviet trade pact; the Russians had promised to buy $345 million worth of French goods this year, but as of October had ordered only $250 million worth...
Britain moved first. Unhappy over Bedas' refusal to buy British Aircraft VC10s for Intra-owned Middle East Airlines (MEA), Whitehall pressured Kuwait into transferring funds away from Intra and into Britain to shore up the pound. Then the government of France, which owns 15% of MEA, covets the rest, and doesn't like pro-American Bedas in any case, blocked an Intra bid to build a seriously needed new European headquarters in Paris. Next Russia, always glad to oblige in such matters, had its Narodny Bank withdraw the $5,000,000 it had deposited with Intra. Narodny staffers...