Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like collections of local airport hangars. Universal City is full of ivy-covered cottages and real grass. Visitors can go through Doris Day's dressing room and peek into her closet, which contains everything but a sign saying Do Not Disturb the Skeletons. Along the tour, they can buy souvenir miniature rubber boulders, which, they are told, are similar to the 5,000,000 standard props in use in the studio complex. They also learn that 800 vehicles are required just to transport people among the 35 sound stages, and the office building, the post office, the bank...
...finally hammered out, Justice announced that it will sell 11.1 million shares of GAF-or 93.3% of all GAF stock-within the next three months; the announcement promptly jumped over-the-counter prices on Aniline stock from $34 to $46.50 in three days. No individual will be allowed to buy more than 1,000 shares and no institution more than 50,000. For the time being, GAP stock will be widely held by U.S. investors...
...early in December the Esso-Shell export consortium and the British Gas Council began jointly studying the feasibility of a $75 million pipeline across the North Sea that would let Dutch wells supply half of Britain's present gas needs. Belgium and Germany have signed up to buy a total of 10 billion cubic meters a year, starting in 1966, and France is dickering for 5 billion a year...
...also big in the nightclub business, being proprietor of London's most successful version of the El Morocco formula: Les Ambassadeurs, with its subsidiary discothèque called The Garrison and its gambling room called Le Cercle. Almost everyone Mills asked advised him not to buy Morocco, which had been falling off since John Perona died and his son Edwin moved the whole place two blocks farther east. And the rise of discothèques such as Le Club, Shepheard's and II Mio had diverted the patronage of the restless junior jets. But on the basis...
Alfie woos and walks out on six birds. One bird is a nesting sort and makes Alfie a father. His idea of child support is to buy a teddy bear. Another is a Venus flytrap. Still another likes to slave for Alfie, and it touches him, but workers are neuters. "Look at it -scrub, scrub, scrub...