Word: traded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Equipment prices have soared. Jessie's $50,000 machines cost only $17,000 in 1971. Next year he plans to trade in three or four of his old combines on several new John Deeres with 30-ft.-wide cutting heads. Price tag: $60,000 each. The Smalls' present inventory of equipment is worth better than half a million dollars: seven combines, six $20,000 trucks for hauling the cut grain to the elevators, three service pickups loaded down with about $20,000 worth of spare parts (the Smalls do all their own repair work), three house trailers...
...week's medal for coolness in a crisis goes to Ned Harris, owner of the Atlas Window Cleaning Contractors, who was plying his trade outside the 20th floor of Honolulu's Chateau Waikiki when the rope holding up his window chair broke...
...high noon in Managua. A strong wind off Lake Managua brought some relief from the scorching heat, but ice cream vendors did their usual brisk trade as people arrived to pay their taxes at the lakeside National Palace. Suddenly 24 soldiers in olive green fatigues and black berets, the uniform of the National Guard training school, drew up in trucks. "Make way. Here comes el Hombre," snapped one of the soldiers as he ran to a side entrance and opened a path in the crowd. Bystanders expected to see General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, Latin America's most notorious strongman...
...fact, a happy denouement still remains to be written. For a real breakthrough in relations to take place, the U.S. must lift its trade embargo against Viet Nam and allow at least a modest level of aid to flow there. There is no great rush on the part of the U.S. Government to proceed with either aid or trade. Says one State Department official: "We need to know clearly and precisely just what the Vietnamese really want, and then take a long look at the situation...
...where to place that 8x10 color glossy of your boy/girl friends, as the case may be. Prominently display great books, prefeably dog-eared copies. Once you have unpacked, sit around and calmly wait for your new roommate(s). When he/she arrives, be friendly, by careful to assert your superiority. Trade SAT scores. Actually, this is a fairly grotesque practice, and it is regarded as boorish, but among roommates, all is fair. Brag about your exploits, academic, athletic, or sexual, depending on what will work best. If you didn't get the single, make sure you get your roommate to agree...