Word: buying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Central Square retailers have, meanwhile, stepped up advertising in local newspapers and are conducting a poll to find out why shoppers buy at their stores...
Williams has built up the Farmer chiefly by weeding out the gone-to-seed circulation lists, and harvesting new readers with contests and prizes ranging from Bibles to tractors. Says he: "I don't think very many people down here buy magazines because they want the magazine. They get a monkey wrench or something and the magazine is thrown in ... I don't know what they do with the Farmer-stick it down the toilet, maybe . . . but they continue to buy...
...Washington last week a customer bustled up to a counter in Magruder, Inc. and tried to buy 96 Ibs. of coffee. She was told she could buy only one 24-lb. case of Ib. tins. In many another U.S. city, hoarding housewives, having heard rumors of $1 a Ib. coffee, were hastily grabbing all they could get. Under such scare buying, coffee prices shot up as much as 25? a Ib. Last week the National Coffee Association estimated that hoarding consumers have already bought at least 132 million pounds more than they need...
...answer to question one is Yes, you will not buy the Yale Record's "The Shattering Review of Literature" which comes out Friday...
Winthrop House has 50 tickets that Puritans may buy to the Davenport College dance...