Word: buys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is little appeal in such a pro gram," Hoffman admitted, "but . . . Europe must have dollars to buy goods from us, and if we don't want to give her those dollars, we should let her earn them." To ease the shock, Hoffman suggested some form of direct "relief" for victims of foreign competition. Secretary of State Dean Acheson agreed that "very substantial steps" would be necessary. Said Acheson: "I should not think we could say: 'Well, we must do it and the chips will have to fall, and whoever suffers will have to suffer." I should think...
...make things even more difficult, the Italian government hoped to buy the statue itself, did its best to force the selling price down to a figure it could afford. As soon as the Pieta was announced for sale, the government's council of fine arts promptly ruled that the Pieta might not leave Italy, thereby spiking any possible foreign offers, including a rumored $550,000 bid from the former White House envoy to the Vatican, Myron C. Taylor...
Freedom of Thought. We cannot have "real democracy," said Author Blanshard, "unless we have access to information on both sides of all important questions . . . The Catholic hierarchy, in Canon 1399, says that no Catholic can read, borrow, buy or sell . . . any book which attacks Catholic discipline or Catholic dogma...
...Founder Harvey Cory. Young Alsdorf did so well selling the coffeemaker in coffee-drenched Brazil that he began to think of what he could do with proper salesmanship in the U.S. In 1942, when Founder Cory retired, Alsdorf and a group of friends scraped up enough money to buy control of the company. He added electric fans, stoves and air humidifiers to the Cory line, and in five years boosted sales from $2.5 million to a 1947 peak of $10.2 million-and profits from...
...than $250 million, more than 3,400 producing oil and gas wells, and big leases in the promising new oil pools-Texas' Scurry County and Canada's Alberta fields. Floyd Odium himself thought enough of Sunray's potentialities to keep an option (until Dec. i) to buy 750,000 shares of its common stock at 12, about where it was last week...