Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before anyone else takes me apart for saying things I haven't said, could I ask that they read the book first? They don't even have to buy it; public libraries are free...
...Shafer as his successor, and Senator Hugh Scott-have marched up and down the Keystone State on behalf of the G.O.P. candidate. Shafer, doing much energetic footwork himself, has been concentrating on the Scranton administration's creditable record and Pennsylvania's prosperity, accuses Shapp of trying to buy the election. Shapp charges that the state's economy is, in fact, deteriorating, that public utilities get an unfair tax break and that Shafer is the tool of unseen "bosses...
...bootlegging soon discovered that state and local governments no longer condone-or tax -smuggled booze. For the first time, convictions are being vigorously sought and obtained against purveyors of illegal liquor, and moonshine-which many Southerners prefer to the aged, taxed variety-is no longer so easy to buy. Biggest gainer is the state government, which expects to see alcohol revenues' jump from $4,500,000 a year to more than $10 million...
...example, he said, in the Freshman Union "we have more than tripled our freezer capacity, which means that we can buy for two months instead of two weeks. We have also installed new rotary ovens which cut beef shrinkage ten percent...
...caution. Working behind the scenes during World War II, Hambros Chairman Jack Hambro helped harass the German economy through black market operations in Nazi-occupied countries. Sometimes the rewards of courage are handsome. When California's Jergins Corp. was up for sale in 1950, nobody wanted to buy it-nobody but Lehman Brothers, which formed a group that picked up the company for $29 million, renamed it Monterey Oil. Within two years, the Lehman group paid off the full amount by selling some of the company's assets, yet still kept most of the property. The Lehman...