Word: buyers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...does not absorb the electronics industry; if there are no serious shortages of essential materials- waving away all these ifs, Stanton believes that color will be transmitted from all U.S TV stations by the end of 1952. That means that even if things move as fast as possible, the buyer of a new black & white TV set today will get at least two, probably more, years of use from...
...1920s, a kid with 25? and any sort of buyer's instinct at all could get his blood genuinely curdled once a week at the movies-if he was lucky he could watch Bill Hart galloping noiselessly across the prairie, and shudder at the sight of Pearl White lashed to the railroad tracks. But when radio invaded the U.S. home, children began to absorb this kind of nerve-jangling opiate every day and, when it was refused them, to complain as bitterly as if they were denied nourishment...
...soon as the doors to the H.A.A. ticket office closed at 5 p.m. yesterday, the first freshman arrived to establish a line of prospective ticket buyer that by 11 p.m. numbered...
There was a bright side, too. Credit Man William Murray of Chicago's Goldblatt Bros., Inc. department store, whose sales were off 20%, thought his business would actually be better because he would not have to repossess so many items. "Believe me," said he, "when a buyer has to put $100 down on a $400 item, he's going to make those payments." Furthermore, Murray, and many another retailer, thought that customers would be coming back again as soon as they got used to bigger installment payments...
...agreed that the profiteering food sellers should be rooted out and recommended a stern course of direct action. All the buyer had to do was call a policeman and the profiteer would be jailed in the Villa Devoto. Said Perón: "We shall close down for good all shops of all profiteers so that in the future only honest traders will be in business...