Word: sold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro is seeking "reparations" for being exploited, perhaps he should turn to the descendants of the African chieftains who so freely sold their own tribesmen to the American slave traders. DAVID B. PERRY Cincinnati...
Catering to Ignorance. How could there be enough good bulls to go around? Spain now has 312 bullrings, some in areas like the Costa Brava and Costa del Sol, which were never part of the sport until tourists appeared. Last year 3,660 bulls were sold to corridas at prices of up to $1,000. To satisfy this demand, breeders fattened bulls in pens on fishmeal and soybean extract instead of allowing leisurely grazing. This process builds fat, not muscle, and animals so topheavy that they stumble and fall before they are weakened with picas and banderillas and finally sword...
...bamboo pole in the Arkansas River. Last year Farmer reaped $55,000 from 500 acres of catfish ponds. They are far more profitable than the 1,300 acres he devotes to rice, soybeans and subsidized cotton. Like most catfish raisers, Farmer can sell all he produces. Last week he sold 60,000 fingerlings and 50 pairs of brood fish, including 25 pairs of hard-to-raise "blue cats," to United Fruit Co., which hopes to raise catfish in Central American ponds...
...Mustang-one of Ford's fast-moving contenders in what Detroit calls "the muscle-car" market, where the best sales pitch is neck-snapping acceleration. The new Mach I, which can be ordered with an engine of up to 335 h.p., already accounts for 22% of all Mustangs sold. There are many other muscle cars, and they now constitute at least 5% of the entire new-car market...
Bamboo Beginnings. In response to this appetite, a growing number of farmers are flooding their acreage and raising fish instead of conventional crops. Last year the nation's 4,000 catfish farmers sold some 12 million lbs. of their product, and the 1972 harvest is projected at 52 million lbs. by the Interior Department's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries...