Word: buys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gradual paralysis is setting in, a paralysis of commerce and spirit." There are few automobiles on the streets. Shanghai's factories are limping along at less than half their capacity production. Many shops stay open only by cutting prices below cost and unloading inventories to pay taxes and buy Communist victory bonds...
...onetime tailor and tourist guide in Saigon, Nguyen after World War II made himself invaluable to the French with his talent for purchasing hard-to-get rice for their forces fighting Indo-China's Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh. It was said in Saigon that Nguyen could buy rice in the very heart of a Ho-held village and ship it out to the French...
...Everybody said there wasn't enough dramatic appeal in it," says Producer-Director-Writer Cy Howard of his Life with Luigi (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS). "Everybody told me no sponsor would buy it. And now look! It has knocked over Bob Hope,* and cut into the rating of Fibber McGee & Molly. It has made Tuesday night. It's got a wonderful sponsor [Win. Wrigley Jr. Co.]. It's got everybody amazed, it's got me amazed...
...cribbed his 904-bushel surplus, put it under Government seal in 1949 and got a $1,319 loan at the $1.47-a-bushel support price less charges. Then a neighbor told him he was a fool: he could put his entire crop under loan at the support price, then buy all the corn he needed for feed at 65½ a bushel in the cash market. In short, by selling all of his own corn to the Government and buying in the open market what he needed for feed, the farmer could make an extra...
...well-publicized life of the author herself. That is not to say that Star Money is autobiographical. Novelist Winsor primly asserts: "This novel is in no sense autobiographical." Yet the book gives a come-on as broad as the devil's front porch to the thousands who may buy the book for its confessional interest: the heroine, Shireen Delaney, is a beautiful doll who at 26 publishes a historical novel that is a tremendous bestseller...