Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last sale of light bulbs was almost a matter of public order, inspite of the fact that you had to present the old light bulb in order to buy...
...liked what they found, if not exactly for all the right reasons. One girl, who explains that she had owned only one tattered pair of panties before, became ecstatic over being able to buy five pairs out of the $75 charge account given each volunteer to supplement her Government-issue wardrobe. The girls will receive an additional $65 allowance for winter clothing later in the year. Recruits also get $30 a month pocket money and $50 a month put aside for when they leave the Job Corps. Out of this $50, the trainees may send up to $25 home...
...past year, the price of housing has risen 1% , public transportation 2.5%, medical care 2.3%, services 4.2%, and clothing nearly 1%; conversely, the consumer is paying 1.3% less than a year ago for appliances, 1% less for new autos and .4% less for furniture. Today's consumers can buy such mainline items as washing machines, vacuum cleaners, kitchen ranges, garbage disposers, tape recorders, radios and black-and-white TV sets for less than a year...
...rock-phosphate mines, jointly owned by Grace and French interests in the African Republic of Togo. In the U.S., Grace is completing a factory near Buffalo for reprocessing nuclear fuel. In the Midwest, it is opening 200 Grace Green-towns, rural centers at which farmers can get advice and buy Grace fertilizers, insecticides and weed-killers...
...years of uninterrupted inflation, Brazil's businessmen have slipped into many bad habits. They raise next week's capital by increasing this week's prices. They buy at any cost and sell at any cost, trusting the ever-higher prices of inflation to see them through their carelessness and inefficiency. Last year prices skyrocketed so much (85%) that sales began to slacken and money grew scarce. Result: Brazil's businessmen have had to live with a severe shortage of capital. Taking advantage of this situation, Brazil's revolutionary government is trying to use one problem...