Word: buying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their elders found a spokesman in George Jones, a London dockworker, who said: "Y'know, I'd like to meet some of these Americans some day after this. I'd like to buy 'em a pint, I would...
Venezuelans began to spend an estimated $39 million last week as freely as if it were water. They crowded Caracas stores to buy U.S.-made pedal-operated jeeps for their small fry. They stormed bars to set up drinks for friends and strangers. They shopped for Christmas presents, clothes, champagne, even Canadian-grown Christmas trees. They dropped silver bolivars into the hands of garbagemen, messengers, menials. Even the poorest of them splurged on big hallacas (tamales made from corn, chicken, spices, meat and rice) and bottles...
...show opened, the Whitney announced it would soon jettison its fine collection of 19th Century art (worth perhaps $250,000), use the proceeds to buy more & more paintings like those in the current show. For the price of such a proven masterpiece as Thomas Eakins' The Biglen Brothers Ready to Start the Race, the Whitney could probably pick up the latest Koerner, and the latest Kantor, Gatch and Levine...
...York, Chicago, Peoria, San Francisco, Omaha, Richmond, Los Angeles-all over the U.S. and half around the world-tambourines rattled and brass bells tinkled in the annual Christmas campaign. Americans dropped pennies, nickels and dimes by the millions into Salvation Army kettles. The money would be used to buy 300,000 Christmas dinners for the down & out, 450,000 presents for children, packages for the aged, the poor in hospitals, and the inmates of jails...
Samson and Delilah (Paramount) bedizens the Biblical story with all that $3,000,000 can buy: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, 600 extras and eye-crashing Technicolor, mixed by the lavish, lily-gilding hand of Cecil B. DeMille. The result may not be quite Old Testament, but it is Bible story shrewdly blended with sex, spectacle, and the merest suggestion of social comment to keep it abreast of current Hollywood trends. It is unlikely to tarnish Producer-Director DeMille's reputation for consistently making (as well as spending) more money on pictures than anybody else...