Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reference to your article, "Is This Any Way to Buy an Airline?" [Jan. 10]: Gentlemen, we are tired. If you have not been involved in a merger you cannot imagine the traumatic shock to the individual employee-the chaos and confusion in trying to standardize and produce a brand new product...
...masked and gloved strangers have long since departed, but they left some mementos behind. Four Geiger counters run continuously, and a villager is paid $66 a month to take daily readings. Other towns will buy no milk, produce or meat from Palomares, despite government assurances that the goods are untainted. Half of the town's 2,000 people have left for jobs elsewhere...
...mountain; then he goes on to sink an is land and dig a moon crater or two. In Act II, a sequence of absurdist hilarity, the nation's council of generals begins bidding at 2,000 crowns and goes to 1,000,000 in a vain effort to buy Waltz's infernal machine. During the negotiations, these senile clowns play with toy automobiles and sail paper airplanes at one another and into the audience...
...culture is an exclusive club-something to be seen by black-tied, be-minked audiences only." Michael Howard, artistic director of the Repertory Theater, feels that "people ought to be able to go to the theater without a necktie if they want to. They ought to be able to buy popcorn. Theater should be part of their lives...
...that of other carriers, most of which engaged high-power political bigwigs to plead their cases. When the matter reached the White House, President Johnson divided new Pacific passenger routes among five airlines, but bypassed Eastern altogether (TIME, Dec. 27). That left Eastern Chairman Floyd Hall committed to buy $48 million worth of stretched DC-8s, which are designed for long-haul routes...