Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They now almost always buy the medium-weight suit that serves for eight out of the twelve months...
...dishes. Monk had always been unusually devoted to his mother; Nellie simply moved into his room so he could stay home with mom. Thus, to his intense satisfaction, he had two mothers. He still found jobs hard to come by, so Nellie went to work as a clerk to buy him clothes and cheer him up with pocket money...
...silenced. "Everybody was saying Thelonious was weird or locked up," Nellie recalls. "But they just talked that way because they'd never see him. He hated to be asked why he wasn't working, and he didn't want to see anybody unless he could buy them a drink at least...
...More than half of the 3,100,000 automatic washers sold last year were bought by people who already had one but wanted a spare or replacement. The trend is symbolized by the refrigerator in the garage; manufacturers report that many families store up beer and soda there, and buy a new refrigerator for the kitchen long before the old stand-by has finished its 15-year life expectancy...
...less than in 1951, and prices of washers have dropped 10% in the same period. The appliance dealers' association estimates that profits will increase less than 1% this year and that 5% of the small dealers will fold. Many of the remaining independents are banding together to buy in carload lots so that they can offer loss leaders as the chains...