Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within hostile East Germany, West Berlin depends for survival upon its right of free access to West Germany. Last week that right suddenly acquired a price. In a swift move, the regime of Communist Boss Walter Urbricht forced all West German and West Berlin travelers through East Germany to buy transit visas at $2.50 a round trip. After July 1, truckers and bargers will be required to pay new taxes on their cargoes, and after July 15 all West German travelers will be required to carry passports (in the past they needed only identity cards). In all, the East Germans...
...evolution, the three dissenters. Justices Douglas, Fortas and Black, all heatedly argued that the First Amendment's rule was being badly compromised. Said Black: "It requires no prophet to foresee that on the argument used to support this law others could be upheld providing for funds to buy property on which to erect religious school buildings, to pay the salaries of religious school teachers, and finally to pick up all the bills for religious schools. I still subscribe to the belief that tax-raised funds cannot constitutionally be used to support religious schools, even to the extent...
...passengers and their baggage from an outlying parking lot into the terminal itself. Airlines are spending $150 million altogether on automated ticket-writing equipment and on a joint reservation system. Between the two, a potential passenger could go to a supermarket, bank or hotel to determine plane space and buy a charge-card ticket, then be checked in by machine when he reaches the boarding gate...
...franchising chains and medical-service firms including convalescent homes. The stock of year-old Minnie Pearl's Chicken System Inc., a Nashville-based franchiser of fried-chicken outlets, has jumped from $20 to $44.50 since it was issued May 1. American Medicorp Inc., formed in January to buy and run hospitals (it now owns three), last month brought out a 345,000-share issue at $20; last week it was selling at $43.50. Superior Surgical Manufacturing Co., a textile firm that makes white garments for both doctors and bakers, has climbed from $11 to $18 over the past month...
...Cambridge City Council agreed late Monday night to settle at last the Houghton School controversy by appropriating $100,000 to buy 16 portable classrooms...