Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gold there is or ever was Beneath the moon could buy no mite of rest For any one of these exhausted souls...
...program is taken each year by government and military officials. U.S. refrigerators and air conditioners meant for hospitals end up in generals' homes; troop commanders collect the "phantom pay" of soldiers whose deaths in combat go unreported to Saigon. For $675, a well-to-do youth can buy an Interior Ministry "diploma" that certifies him as a government spy, thus exempting him from army service. A trick currently in favor with provincial chiefs is to blow up a provincial bridge, blame the Viet Cong, and win a fat construction contract from Saigon...
...Macy's Department Store decided to build a branch in Queens, N.Y., began to buy up all the property on a prime five-acre site. As quickly as anyone could say money, everyone had sold out - except for Mary Sondek, an elderly mother of six, who lived in a two-story gingerbread house on a 170-ft. by 50-ft. corner plot. Assuming that she was simply waiting until the price was right, Macy's went ahead with plans for a circular stadium-sized store whose perimeter would cut a small corner...
...steel company had already doubled the going rate by paying $870 an acre for its site, and nearby Hennepin land soon started attracting bids of up to $5,000 an acre. A vacant lot 80 ft. by 150 ft. drew an offer of $10,000. Two speculators tried to buy up stock in Hennepin's sole bank, threatened to put up another one next door when their offer was refused. Half a dozen groups rushed in and offered to buy the Putnam County Record, the county's only newspaper...
...knew about-Rockefeller's remarriage, the draft-Lodge campaign, Johnson's choosing Humphrey as his vice-President-White probes into them, and shows them to you and they turn out to be very unfamiliar and very interesting. I can't prove this to you without quoting huge slabs; buy this book and see how much you didn't know last year...