Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coop spokesman explained that a buyer had attempted to place an order for the "Six-Footer" line, but that the firm's salesman never came. After several attempts to contact the company, the Coop was forced to buy the scarves elsewhere in order to get them in time for fall, he said...
...singer Daumyn O'Theerie rockets to fame with his controversial recording of "Don't Ya Negotiate, Baby." Thousands of wives and girlfriends of newly drafted servicemen buy the record. Lyrics include: Don't ya negotiate, baby, I just don't know what to think, babe, Like them creeples say to do. 'Bout them pacificisters and such. Let our love burn like napalm, baby; We're keepin' US offs the brink, babe, Let it tingle like Asian flu. And, oh yeah, I love ya so much...
...East Germany agreed to continue to reserve 50% of its ex ports, including machinery and other specialized manufactures, for the Soviet Union. Apel and his young technocrats wanted to boost hard-currency earnings with increased exports to the West. Their "illusionary, unbalanced demand" was to use these earnings to buy technically advanced Western plants and equipment. Instead, the trade pact committed East Germany to deliver some 300 merchant ships to the Soviet Union, at prices 30% below what Western buyers would have paid. The Soviet Union promised to supply oil, iron ore and other raw materials-at prices well above...
...industry and fought those centralists who would plan everything ("They wish to serve not God but the devil"). While he called for conscious and calculated state intervention, he argued just as passionately that the government had no right to tamper with individual freedoms to choose or change jobs, to buy or sell goods, or to earn respectable profits. He had tremendous faith that private men could change, improve and expand capitalism...
...expand its business with Europe, the U.S.S.R. has just closed two other deals. Italy's Olivetti announced last week that it will advise the Russians about how to mechanize their huge bureaucracies, sell them office machines ranging from typewriters to calculators. Greek Shipping Magnate Achilles Franghistas agreed to buy 33 Soviet-built cargo ships. The terms: $76 million in long-term credit, $29 million in increased Soviet purchases of farm produce-a welcome outlet for Greece's agricultural surpluses...