Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overall cotton program was advertised as costing $448 million during its first year. Instead, it is now expected to amount to nearly $800 million. Reason: despite all the subsidies, exports have kept falling and production has kept rising, meaning that the Government has had to buy up still more cotton for its already bulging inventories. By last week the Commodity Credit Corp. owned a record 7,372,000 bales at a cost of $1.2 billion, on which storage charges alone run another annual $30 million...
...didn't bargain with them." Months ago, Karp and friends showed up to protest, then recently to haggle as crowbar and sledge hammer sliced into Fifth Avenue's elegant Brokaw mansion, a late 19th century simulacrum of France's Chenonceaux chateau. Karp offered to buy two copper finials perched atop the roof, was told by the wreckers that removing them with care was too dangerous and would slow up the job of razing the building. Said the sympathetic foreman, "Sure it's a shame, but something should have been done about it before...
...York's Senator Jacob Javits and Congressman Ogden Reid proposed that New York, Connecticut and the Federal Government share in underwriting the New Haven's commuter deficits. Two days later, in the most remarkable development of all, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller proposed that his state government buy the nation's biggest commuter line: the Long Island Rail Road, upon which 175,000 commuters depend...
...Charles Kellstadt, ex-chief of Sears, Roebuck, and among whose major stockholders is Publisher Gardner Cowles. It reports $4,000,000-a-year sales of Florida realty to investment-minded Europeans and Latin Americans. The firm sometimes charters flights for foreign prospects, who get a $125 discount if they buy...
...into a many-splendored thing. Lana's warmest admirer is Hugh O'Brian, a Romeo-for-hire to rich female tourists. Two of them (Ruth Roman and Virginia Grey) have come to Acapulco to get some son, and Ruth thinks that O'Brian is just the buy...