Word: buys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largest playable drum in the world--which is six feet in diameter and two feet in depth. The original drum, received in 1928, gave its last beat in January, 1955. In March a funeral service was conducted for the relic, launching a "Dimes for the Drum" campaign to buy a replacement. The new drum, the present one, made its debut at the University of Massachusetts game of that year...
...final touch, the Agency has even taught its vendors how to appeal to their Harvard customers. "Get your icecold hotdog here," one was heard to wail, offering a tolerably warm specimen. Then plaintively, "Please, somebody buy this hotdog." And people do. Each sale earns three cents for the hawker, and a penny saved is $50,000 a year...
Health or Safety. In an effort to break the work-rule impasse last week, Secretary Mitchell held secret meetings with both sides, proposed a commission to arbitrate rules on a company-by-company or plant-by-plant basis. McDonald talked as if he would buy the suggestion-if the union had a vote on the commission. But management rejected the suggestion and thereby angered Administration officials. "Hell," snapped one, "they're now trying to get back from labor a good deal of what they themselves have given away over the last 15 years...
Happily, the prison has never had any trouble with the gamblers. For one thing, only card games are permitted, and only cons with records of good behavior can be appointed dealers. They "buy" a table for 75 cents a week, split the take with the prison, which uses its share for the recreation fund and for the purchase of eyeglasses for needy inmates. Players draw "brass" (scrip) from their personal accounts (maximum $20 a week), never handle real cash, since an accumulation of "street money" might give a prisoner big ideas about escaping. Gambling hours in the small, dim, rock...
...last week. "There was such a crowd on the floor," said the vice president of a New York mutual savings bank, "that for a moment I thought there was a run on the bank." All over the U.S., investors pulled their money out of their institutionalized socks to buy the four-year, ten-month issue, which finance officials have gleefully dubbed the "magic fives."* The New York Federal Reserve Bank reported that savings deposits in local commercial banks fell by $45 million following the Treasury's announcement-an unusually large one-week decline...