Word: buy
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...beer, tobacco and petrol, which more than canceled the tax rebates. Above all, New Zealand's voters were irritated by the feeling of pervasive government supervision of their tight little, right little island nation. A frequent gripe is that in the midst of prosperity, no one can buy an automobile except after paying exorbitant import duties and taxes (137% on U.S. cars), and even then the red tape makes delivery a matter of months...
...Holy Roman Empire and an Imperial viceroy in Prague put a palaceful of artists and artisans at work turning out paintings and works of silver and gold. His son, Karl Eusebius was even more ardent. He was the delight of Vienna and Antwerp art dealers, for he would buy up whole collections at a time, and added such names to his catalogue as Memling and Van der Goes. He once instructed his son:"With your consort, you and all your successors will be devoted lovers of art and rarities as well...
...torn by ugly racial strife openly encouraged by those sworn to uphold the laws. Should the Confederacy be established, such shenanigans would be of no more than parochial interest, to be regarded by the 37 United States in the same light as revolts in Iran . . . The Southerners could buy our automobiles and we would buy their textiles. Barley would go for bourbon and books for petroleum. The U.S. would undoubtedly do the handsome thing by sponsoring the C.S.A. for entry into the United Nations, where Khrushchev & Co. would soon learn a thing or two about the fine art of obstructionism...
...raise the years loss to more than $1.5 billion, almost all of it in 1960's second half So serious was the situation that Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson got on the phone to Henry Ford II and offered "suggestions about the advisability of Ford's offer to buy a11 the stock of its British subsidiary (TIME, Nov. 28), which presumably would add some $300 million to the U.S. gold outflow. Ford politely said that the company was going ahead...
...months, five separate industrial plants have been at work on a project, each making a small but vital part, each kept in ignorance of the nature of the ultimate weapon. Then last week, with all sections assembled, Chancellor Records of Philadelphia detonated its bomb. American youth can now buy long-playing albums containing the sculptured heads of the Great Ducktail Warblers, Fabian and Frankie Avalon...