Word: buying
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Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 indicated that if NASA had to buy out the predictable number of recalcitrant land-holders, the site would be far too expensive...
...Cohn kept complaining that people in "high places" (meaning mainly Old Enemy Bobby Kennedy) were "out to get him." They didn't. Last week Senator Joe McCarthy's former committee counsel was acquitted on all counts in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The jury did not buy the Government claim that Cohn had tried to quash an indictment against some stock swindlers and later lied about his activities to a grand jury...
...system last week proved to be the last boll for the 93-year-old New Orleans Cotton Exchange, which closed its doors to trading. Because the price of cotton has been so firmly fixed, big dealers no longer have to go to the exchange to buy futures contracts to hedge against possible fluctuations. Futures trading on the New Orleans exchange dropped from 12 million bales a decade ago to only 18,000 last year. The exchange did not take its closing easily, planted full-page ads in many newspapers to attack the situation. After suggesting that Secretary of Agriculture Orville...
...fuel will rise by nearly 70%. As a sort of footnote, the fund also predicted that, while Europe will acquire more expensive tastes in liquor-indeed, the Continent is now busy switching to Scotch -excessive drinking will decrease. It seems that there will be so much to do, buy and see in the Europe of 1975 that there will be less time for liquor, "formerly one of the few solaces...
...first introduced to Aussie shoppers by Sidney Myer, a penniless Russian Jew who emigrated to Australia in 1905 and began to hawk merchandise from his back, not far from Melbourne. He moved up to a pushcart, then to a rented store, and by 1911 had amassed enough money to buy a small general store in Melbourne-right on the present site of Myer's. He quickly became the city's most successful businessman, outraging competitors by such novel practices as introducing "price leaders" to attract customers, ordering his salesgirls to don hats and crowd around neglected bargain counters...