Word: sold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Free Trader. In Toledo, a seven-year-old boy got a stern lecture in court after he took a $100 bill from his home and sold it to a stranger for a quarter...
...heard at all over the artful work of his accompanying musicians and the studio sound engineers, suggests mournfully that he is trying to imitate every rock-'n'-roller on record. Yet the noise sells. His rendition of Turn Me Loose was high on the charts for weeks, sold more than three-quarters of a million copies. Tiger, his latest, a song that Columnist John Crosby observes is "enormously improved by total unintelligibility," is climbing fast. Its popularity helps 16-year-old Fabian earn up to $12,000 a night, gets him TV appearances with Perry Como, Ed Sullivan...
...king's ransom. The Harvard surveyors found that one oilman was paying geologists from five competing companies $500 each a month to feed him undercover information. At another company, a switchboard operator intercepted long-distance calls between executives, heard when and where the company planned to buy leases, sold the tips to an outside broker, who grabbed up the leases. In Casper, Wyo., an oil executive quit without turning in his office keys, later was caught fingering through secret maps in another executive's office. The company did not prosecute, but passed around word that made the erring...
...have cut out a lot more drinking had he built homes instead of trying to persuade Frenchmen to drink milk.") Winston has plenty of housetops to preach from. Outside Paris he put up 250 U.S.-style, moderately-priced houses and apartments to show off American mass-production building methods, sold them so fast that he plans hundreds more. In Spain's new steelmaking town of Aviles, he is building a $45 million city of 3,500 two-bedroom houses (price...
...mink stoles, sentimentalizing about his boyhood in Manhattan's Lower East Side, or solemnly addressing the young ladies of a Presbyterian college on "Contributions of Calvinism to American Democracy." The combination is engaging and makes sense; Only in America, Golden's book of clippings from the Israelite, sold 270,000 hard-cover copies, is still going strong, and is being fashioned into a musical by Meredith (The Music Man) Willson...