Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miami, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., any law-abiding citizen can freely buy a pistol and stash it at home. But carrying it on one's person, even openly in a holster, requires a permit that police rarely issue. Not more than 20 Washingtonians are so licensed. Many states ban almost any "concealed" weapon, including blackjacks, brass knuckles and even slingshots. Although tear-gas Pen-guns are legal in most states, the notable exceptions of New York, Illinois and California cover the nation's biggest, most perilous cities. It is often illegal to carry even a water pistol...
...started on a small scale years ago as modest ads matching two products with an obvious affinity, but they have now bloomed into big ad and promotion campaigns that bring together as many as a dozen sponsors. Small companies are excited by the bigger, splashier space they can buy by pooling their ad money with other small firms, also like the occasional opportunity to be paired with a famous brand name. Tie-in promotional material is usually given more and better space in stores and show windows, is liked even by large corporations that can easily afford solo advertising. United...
...economists' terms, furniture has traditionally been a "postponable purchase"-people often put off buying a new chair, couch or bedroom set until the old one broke down, seldom bought on impulse. Lately, there has been a shift of sorts: Americans are inclined to trade in their old furniture somewhat sooner, buy more and more new furniture than in years past. Last week, at their annual summer show in High Point, N.C., the seat of the industry, the nation's furniture manufacturers puffed up their earlier predictions for 1964. On the basis of a notably strong first half, they...
Changes In Quality. The general health of the economy has given people both the urge to buy and the money to do it with. Meanwhile, the tax cut has enabled them to pay off their old installment debts and take on new ones. The furniture business has been bolstered not only by changes in the quantity of U.S. personal income but also by changes in the quality of U.S. living. One major factor is that the U.S. is a nation of increasing mobility; this year 9,500,000 American families will move to different homes, and most of them will...
...which is 8½? above the present world market price. Then it has been paying an 8½? subsidy to exporters so that they can sell U.S. cotton competitively at the world price. But U.S. textile manufacturers have been complaining that foreign textile makers can thus buy U.S. cotton cheaper than they can-and the Government has now devised still an other subsidy to meet their complaints. Beginning Aug. 1, it will drop the farmers' support price 2½? to 30?, automatically lowering the subsidy to exporters by 2½. At the same time it will grant U.S. manufacturers...