Word: buys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Truck Farmer Simon Eygenraam, summed up their problem: "Look, we Dutchmen together produce much more than the home market needs, and we export, mostly to Britain and Germany. But we're hampered by trade restrictions and quotas . . . I cannot get foreign currency, therefore I cannot buy the freezer units I would like to have. I cannot get more land for my sons . . . That's no kind of future to offer my children...
...single thread through the crazy-quilt pattern of modern art. The son of a Brooklyn manufacturer, he was one of the first U.S. painters to go to Paris. "They were just tearing down the exposition buildings of 1900," he says. "There were no automobiles then and you could buy a Chateaubriand for 30 centimes. I remember Leo and Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Matisse, Alfy Maurer, Weber, Pascin, and John Marin, too. I used to think Marin was an Italian model: he never said a word, never fitted in with our crowd at the Cafe de Dome...
Some bad financial advice prompted Treasurer of the U.S. Georgia Neese Clark to sell all her U.S. Government bonds. Now she can't buy any new ones, she disclosed in Washington. Before taking the post, she said, attorneys advised her that it was illegal for the Treasurer to hold any U.S. Government securities. She learned too late that the Treasurer may keep any U.S. bonds already owned when assuming the post, may not buy any new ones after taking office...
Department stores had never seen anything quite like it. Across the land, a surge of buying sent sales to an alltime record the announcement that the short interest (i.e., the number of shares sold short in anticipation of a decline) had risen 61,311 shares in the last month to 2,267,481, the highest since July 1932, was good news to the bulls. They argued that a further advance would result when the bears scurried to buy back the shares they had sold short. And any decline, ran the argument, would be cushioned as the shorts bought to realize...
...three months in Washington, British, Canadian and U.S. oil experts have been conferring on a broad and complex question: How can Britain cut down on its greatest dollar drain, the $625 million a year it spends to buy and produce oil? ECA had tried to help: it had allocated $30 million for the construction of oil refineries in Britain...