Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republic episode as indicative of our strong-arm tactics. Many of the students felt that although the U.S. is generous with its aid and loans to the "developing nations," there are too many strings attached, and that too much money comes under the condition that it be used to buy U.S. goods...
...party can have privacy from peering eyes. Clamping down his yellow golfer's cap, clenching the wheel like a vise, Johnson really opens up the throttle, leaving broad wakes and gaping mouths behind him. He goes so fast, in fact, that the Secret Service has had to buy two new speedboats to keep up with him when he is at full throttle (four boats in all accompany him). "Here comes Linton" (hill-country pronunciation of the President's name), chuckle the fishermen as the armada approaches, or-if they happen to have blinked-"There goes Linton...
...worst chronic inflation are scarcely felt. Most families can grow enough food to get along and often have enough left over to barter for clothes and even bicycles. In the cities, life for most is not so easy. The monthly wage of an average white-collar worker would barely buy a round of drinks in the Hotel Indonesia bar. To make ends meet, city dwellers have invented a sort of guerrilla economy. Almost everyone has a racket...
...Greta Starks was 24 when she acquired a married admirer of 55 who became virtually her sole means of support. For five years, Greta's great and good friend in Detroit showered her with furs, furniture, a new car, a weekly allowance and cash enough to buy a house. Figuring that it was all a tax-free gift, Greta filed no income tax returns through 1958. The ever-vigilant Internal Revenue Service recently totted up Greta's take at $64,978.41, called it taxable income "for services rendered," and ordered her to pay $26,069.96. Happily...
What would absolutely assure another record-breaking year, steelmen realize, would be a bigger buy by their old ally, Detroit. And steel orders for new production models, which go on the line in August, are just beginning to come...