Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, he came back as soon as he could save a few dollars. "You're all the time homesick when you ain't in this hollow," says Handshoe. "It bothered me fierce. In a city you got a certain job, and you go to the store and buy from one mess to the next. You can't get credit in a place like Ohio. Just about any store around here will give you credit...
...first things Floyd Handshoe did after joining the Happy Pappies was to buy a $300 freezer-on credit. It contains no meat as yet. He was "aiming to kill that bull calf and a hog" in October, he explains, "but I got to looking at the moon. You can't kill no meat on the new of the moon. It will be tough. I studied the calendar and the almanac, and the soonest I can do it is around the ninth or tenth of next month." Then there is the hillbilly's fundamentalist religion, ever inveighing against sins...
...maintain a small business, the Government makes or participates in loans up to $350,000 to provide working capital, assist in plant construction, conversion or expansion, and buy machinery or other equipment. Moreover, Small Business Administration experts are ever ready to advise small businessmen as to which Government agencies are prospective customers for his products or services, to help him place his name on a bidders' list, or to assist him in obtaining drawings and specifications for contracts...
...Liberties Union, argued in the affirmative. "The right to acquire a home historically has been considered as basic to life as the right to acquire food," declared Selvin. Nonetheless, he said, California has erected "a shield for racial discrimination" by denying court relief for Negroes when they seek to buy a house in a generally white neighborhood...
...People buy foreign goods for many reasons: novelty, fashion, durability, economy, snob appeal. Whatever the reasons, U.S. imports traditionally run at about 3% of the gross national product. That total tends to rise sharply, however, in times of prosperity -and this year it has spurted faster than at any time in a decade. The surge may satisfy the fanciers, and the sellers, of Dutch beer, Swiss watches or Italian fashions, but it bothers the U.S. Government. The nation's trade surplus -the excess of exports over imports-is rapidly shrinking, thus reducing the base that the U.S. has used...