Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been receiving prompt and, he hoped, favorable attention. Recalling his own days as a Texas Congressman's aide, Johnson said that he had "made $268 a month for two years," and that Lady Bird had made him salt away a fixed amount each month to buy "baby bonds." That nest egg, the President added, provided the money for his first congressional campaign...
...Angelis wisely saw that a shrewd operator could make a fortune out of two other Government programs: farm price supports and foreign aid. His idea: buy up the bulging soybean surplus, turn it into soybean oil, which is used for everything from salad dressing to paint, and ship the oil abroad-either privately or through the many Government aid programs. Between 1958 and 1962, De Angelis built a sprawling refinery in Bayonne and leased 139 oil storage tanks, many as tall as five-story buildings. Operating in a slippery, fiercely competitive industry, he outdid other companies by buying the most...
...door, the window frame-I have represented a cross section of our culture. It's our own New York landscape." Neither the artist nor the gallery has decided on an asking price. "It's quite an impractical piece," admits Rauschenberg. "No one will buy that thing anyway," said a gallery aide, but then they did not expect anyone to buy an 85-ft.-long painting either...
Privileged Many. Who are the privileged many who buy luxury cars? The average Continental owner, Ford's Lincoln-Mercury division discovered in a recent survey, is 54 years old, earns $25,000 a year, and has completed more than two years of college. Nearly two-thirds of Continental owners are managers, proprietors or professional men. Even more impressive: although Continentals can cost as much as $8,500, 81% of the customers pay for them in cash...
...crop failures to import fewer Western machines and more Western food. For both Russia and Communist China the biggest import from the West is grain. China now takes more than 50% of Australia's wheat exports and 10% of Canada's; last week it agreed to buy about another $100 million worth of grain from Canada. Most of the U.S.'s $340 million worth of exports to the East last year was in the form of grain for Poland and Russia. While this business has helped to pare Western crop surpluses, it has the disadvantage of being...