Word: sell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday morning, and Jim Smith stands at his stall in the Old Paris Flea Market, a recycled warehouse near Oklahoma City's railroad yards. Before him are tables laden with things to sell or swap: beer mugs, some tiny and some as big as umbrella stands, plus old bottles, crystal goblets and ceramic figurines...
...settle down and start farming," says Seminole Mayor Bob Clark. "They were just getting some bad advice?or someone was deceiving them." Says Reimer: "Rumors, rumors, all is rumors. But I cannot explain to them myself how it happened." Says Seth Woltz, a real estate appraiser who helped sell the Mennonites the land: "They had very few questions about the deal when we closed it. As far as their immigrant rights?what do I know about immigration...
...itself through the lush hills and yellow stone villages of the Cotswolds. From Chipping Norton, one can espy an extraordinary edifice, half-castle, half-factory, called the Bliss tweed mill. Bliss it is: the 1872 mill weaves woolen fabrics for some of the world's great tailors and will sell them to the passer-by for about $10 a yard...
...their inherited parcels of worn-out acreage. "When I was born, the land was still good," he says. "There were trees and grass. Now there are just a few trees. We have used them for houses and firewood. We used to feed a family from one acre and sell what we grew on the other five acres in the market. Now it takes five acres to feed a family, and the remaining land does not produce enough to buy clothing. There are many places that are empty. If we have our own country, we can spread people everywhere instead...
...trustees, however, voted no to sell $6 million in common stock in companies active in South Africa, a demand of the South African Support Committee, a B.U. student group. B.U. has a total portfolio worth approximately $78 million...