Word: buys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Klinger worked in the OPA's Manhattan office. There, said the Government, he let some black-market friends buy 6,000,000 Ibs. of sugar at the OPA price of $6.38 a 100-lb. bag, sell it to soft-drink manufacturers for as much as $25 a bag. In return, said the Government, Klinger & friends collected $5 a bag in kickbacks, clearing an estimated $300,000. Last week a federal grand jury indicted Klinger, three other OPA officials and three sugar dealers, for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Maximum penalty: $10,000 in fines and two years in jail...
...party. Anything will do as an excuse-a new door for an old house, a new pot for the kerosene stove, or the casting of a new Buddha. Practically no one in Siam casts his own Buddha any more, of course, but since it would be unthinkable to buy or sell an image of the great god, the Siamese "rent" the Buddha from a store on a lifetime lease, and hold a casting party anyway...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). All That Money Can Buy; with Walter Huston...
...well in front of the U.S. in the development of jet commercial planes. To catch up, CAB urged Congress at least to help finance the building of jet prototype planes by the U.S. aircraft industry. Failure to do so, warned CAB, might force the U.S. transocean lines "either to buy foreign aircraft or to yield traffic to the foreign carriers...
...tariffs? No, said "Red" Motley; that was a problem that the British have to buck. Asked another: "Are you going to make it any easier for us to sell in America?" Certainly not, snapped Don Mitchell, president of Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. "Americans don't just buy things," he added. "They get sold...