Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Culler's introduction hints that the anthology is a Curiosity, published for the intimate Harvard family. Most people wouldn't buy it if just any Joe were writing about "football at other colleges," but it's Theodore Roosevelt sizing up the Ivy League. Therefore, the book, a real cocktail party conversation piece, will end up on innumerable coffee tables. But it should be kept within the family. The outside world should never find out that Harvard College didn't teach its distinguished graduates everything they know. The Advocate Centennial Anthology ought only to be sold sub rosa during Commencement Week...
...from 120 to 200 titles, giving the major works in French and German where equivalent coverage is unavailable in English. For upperclassmen in history this book is a must; history sophomores choosing a field of specialization with inadequate means of discerning between the alternatives it is also a valuable buy; but all students in the social sciences or humanities who need a concise reading list for background in any historical period will also find that this bibliography has much to recommend...
...doggedly did he handle Mrs. Surowitz's cash and some of his own that by 1960 their combined Hilton investment totaled $45,000 in common stock, plus a $10,000 debenture. Then, in 1962, Mrs. Surowitz received a curious letter from Hilton: the company was offering to buy 300,000 shares of its own stock from Hilton stockholders at slightly above market price. Mystified, Brilliant began investigating...
...hybrid, employees brush pollen individually onto the pistils of 10,000 roses, consider themselves lucky if three of the resulting 100,000 seedlings seem worth cultivating. The Mexicana rose cost $50,000, not an extravagant expenditure if only 1% of the nation's 35 million rose growers buy...
...rust-resisting metals used to make alloy steels. Detroit is consuming more chrome steel for trim. A surge in orders for machine tools has boosted demand for tungsten steel used in cutting edges. Molybdenum, one of the prime hardening metals, is so scarce that steelmakers frequently are forced to buy on a grey market, where they pay speculators double or triple the going price of $2.04 a lb. Even so, most smaller companies that specialize in alloy steels have been forced to turn down orders, curtail production, and extend delivery-lead times from two months to as long as four...