Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assembled for a zany new TV series. Their first album begins with their television theme song: "We're the young generation, and we've got sumpin' to say." Actually, they don't say so much (This Just Doesn't Seem to Be My Day, Buy Me a Dog) but they do have some engagingly catchy songs, notably Lust Train to Clarksville...
...boosting passenger-car output from 200,000 to 800,000 by 1970. Other consumer durables, from TV sets to washing machines, are also targeted for production in greatly increased quantities. One thing the record grain crop will do is give many Russian farmers extra rubles to buy them...
Today the well-heeled political candidate spends all he can to buy television time. When money runs low, he uses his ingenuity to organize "news events":-a post-office dedication, say, or an appearance with an illustrious visitor-anything that will lure the ubiquitous television camera. "I know we're being used," admits NBC's David Brinkley, as he looks ahead toward
...Francisco, the explosion was touched off when a policeman killed a 16-year-old boy who was fleeing from a stolen car. Adult Negro leaders tried courageously to calm youthful rioters, but quickly learned that, as one of them said, "The kids wouldn't buy it." With admirable alacrity, Mayor John...
...Greeley Square store, with its two subterranean floors of bargain basement for subway shoppers, was an immediate success. On the strength of it, Bernard Gimbel took another chance. In 1923 he negotiated with Horace A. Saks to buy Saks's 34th Street store as well as the Fifth Avenue site where Saks was planning an uptown store. The negotiations took place partly in a railroad baggage car, where the two men sat atop an empty coffin and talked business. Saks's Cadillac-class merchandise now accounts for half of Gimbel Bros.' earnings...