Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible to have your laundry delivered at the Pump and then lose your shirt at Horse, a tough, three-handed card game. Pinochle players have their own corner; the Euchre Club meets Wednesday night. Pool shooters have their table (darts are too damn dangerous). You can buy farm-fresh eggs or homemade horseradish, or leave messages on the bulletin board. No voluptuous nude behind the bar here; there is a slightly salacious wall mural painted by a customer of long ago. Summertime finds a horseshoe court set up on the edge of the parking lot, with a picnic table...
...Governor's job. Since the election was to be decided by the state legislature, where the revolution held a bandwagon majority, Adhemar's only hope was to woo the assemblymen's votes, and he went about it with all the fury that money and patronage could buy. He handed out 13,000 state jobs in five days, sometimes nominating as many as three people to the same position. And when Castello Branco finally stepped in to purge him, he was reportedly offering pro-revolution assemblymen up to $27,000 to switch their votes. "The revolution could...
...products but sagging profits, swiftly turned them into solid moneymakers. Among them: firms that make small gasoline engines, industrial fixtures, furniture (Widdecomb) and machines that paint white lines down the middle of roads. Having sold two firms last year "to get some money to play with," Evans decided to buy into A.M.C. because its stock was selling for only 60% of the company's net worth...
...could be a good buy. Evans already can count a paper profit of at least $200,000 on his investment. The company has quite a way to turn, but its Kelvinator appliance sales-an estimated 20% of its $1 billion-a-year total -are strong. The erosion that cost A.M.C. 16% of its auto dealers since 1963 has been halted. Evans has enough confidence that he lately increased his stock holdings to nearly $3,000,000, or about 1½% of A.M.C. shares. "What a deal it would be," he muses, "if I could turn that company around...
...competitors have some selling to do before they can tap this market fully. The U.S. and British governments still refuse permits for the sale to the East of such advanced third-generation equipment as the IBM System/360 and English Electric's System 4, which computer commissars want to buy most of all. Beyond that, as Western experts discovered at Prague, the East is woefully ignorant of even second-generation procedures and equipment. "In most cases," commented one American expert, "the machines are too sophisticated for the problems. The Communists are very good in theory, but they have...