Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clergymen took a full-page advertisement in the New York Times to demand of the President, "In the Name of God, STOP IT!" A group called Women Strike for Peace mounted a widespread get-out-of-Viet Nam campaign. A student at the University of Michigan collected money to buy medical supplies for the Viet Cong...
...Gilbert called it a momentous occassion, noting that it was the first time Chagall and Radcliffe had gotten together. The art critics said the paintings were a relief from soup cans and dots. A mink-covered matron decided to buy one to replace an old Chagall she feared had grown unfashionable...
...shoemakers of the U.S. would be happy indeed if men were as vain as women are. American women impulsively buy shoes to match mood and outfit, acquire an average of one new pair every three months. The typical American man is far less affected by this urge: he buys shoes hardly once every eight months...
...when other stores clamored for her products. She introduced medicated face creams and waterproof mascara, was the first to send saleswomen on the road to demonstrate proper makeup for ordinary women. She was also wise enough to keep prices high. "Some women," she once said, "won't buy anything unless they can pay a lot." Today more than 100 Helena Rubinstein products are sold in the U.S., and sales have increased 500% since World...
Rebuilding the corporate structure partly dismantled by Allied postwar regulations, Krupp reacquired such major divested properties as Bochumer Verein, a profitable high-quality steel plant, and Capito & Klein, originally part of the big Rheinhausen steel mill, went on to buy several big steel fabricators. It failed to sell Rheinhausen as required by an Allied directive, and the deadline has been extended so often (every year since 1958) that the sale is now regarded as a dead issue. Krupp might have done better to sell: Beitz admits that Rheinhausen is losing money, and outsiders guess that the loss has been running...