Word: buys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Webster: I don't see how we're going to progress in this art unless the public buys receivers. If we put out something that says, "Do not buy anything now until you get UHF . . ." everything is going to stop...
Webster: It would be tragic for the manufacturers who sell the obsolete sets, but [it] would not be tragic for the public who kept their dollars in their stockings to wait for color television. The only way to get the industry going is to have the public buy sets...
...paper drive, organized by the mothers, raised enough money to buy Beauregard the first telebinocular (for eye tests) and Audiograph (for hearing tests) in any New Orleans public school. Among the first 65 children tested, Schwertz found 38 who needed glasses or other eye treatment, and several who were being handicapped by deafness...
...radio station for $12 million to the rival Philadelphia Bulletin. Pot-bellied Publisher Stern retired to a Manhattan penthouse to chain-smoke Optimo Dunbar cigars and dictate his memoirs. But son David III ("Tommy"), now 39, itched to get back in the business, ranged far & wide seeking a good buy. He found it in New Orleans. For $2,000,000, which his father helped him pay, Tommy last week bought the New Orleans Item from Publisher Ralph Nicholson...
...folksy, sentimental column, "Half Minute Interviews," became San Diego's clearing house for good works. He raised $40,000 to buy shoes for needy youngsters, rounded up 600 wheelchairs for cripples, organized an annual Santa Helper campaign to provide money, clothes and toys, ran a depression Job-Finding Club, bought Seeing Eye dogs for the blind, found homes for orphaned children...