The family purchased a new car She buys for the big department store The conglomerate acquired a new company
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Carmen purchased a dress for $50. Carmen obtained the spare part. Carmen obtained the spare part from Diana. $5 bought a ticket.
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Some part-time farmers buy more land than they need in anticipation of suburban development. He also bought a huge square of pegboard for hanging_up his tools, and lumber for his workbench, sandpaper and glue and assorted nails, levels and T_squares and plumb_lines and several gadgets that he had no idea how to use or what they were for. Or buy half_a_dozen lengths of oilcloth and change patterns for different kinds of barbecues. The owner of the painting got it for$ 750000, sold it for$ 500000 in a market crash, and bought it back for$ 590000. It may seem to some of them that success can be purchased much less dearly by fishing in the murky waters of international politics than by facing_up to the intractable tasks at_home. Mr._Clifton would have preferred death and bankruptcy to having his son stay with his wife 's people without contributing to his and his family 's upkeep, and besides that there were the things that had to be bought for the baby, milk and orange_juice and vitamins and soap, just plain soap. These booze customers had until then been buying their from the Sheldon, Saltis-McErlane, and Druggan-Lake gangs, and now they were competing for trade with the Torrio-Capone saloons; once_again O_'_Banion 's brash recklessness had caused a proliferation of ill_will. If you have a planting of half an acre or more you may want to buy a small garden tractor( available for$ 300 to$ 500 with attachments, 1960 prices). There was a time when, if a man wanted to purchase a boat, it was necessary for him to be able to produce a sizeable amount of cash before he could touch the tiller or wheel. One of the agreements calls_for the New_Eastwick_Corp. to purchase a 1311 acre tract for$ 12192865. If you do n't own a planer and do n't want to buy one, it 's well worth renting. The velvet smoking_jackets, pearl gray, wine, and blue, which Miss_Ada had bought him hung brushed and in the closet. It would be a mistake to sell those thousands of beginning campers on the idea they 're buying the comforts of home. When surplus land is not expensive to buy or to keep_up, it is usually better to buy it than to buy so small an acreage that the development of properties might impair the residential value of the farm. Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer_'s_Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A._J._Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper. He got no relief from drink because, though sometimes Precious would buy himself a drink if he went out with us in the evening, he 'd leave it on the table untouched. Part-time farmers generally must pay higher prices for than full-time farmers because they buy in smaller quantities. Even before he hit big money, he had begun buying modern paintings. It was not that they had been contracted for during the interval; they simply could no_longer be purchased for missionary purposes. But during the second_half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus_H._K._Curtis purchased it-`` paper, type, and all''- for$ 1000 it was a 16- page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2000 subscribers. It should be enough to say that the practice of the state buying automobiles is at_least forty years old. Give generously when you buy candy today for the Brain Research_Foundation. Hartman, purchased by the A 's from the Milwaukee_Braves last fall, allowed no hits in his scoreless three inning appearance, and merited the triumph. In Keng_Kok, the City of Silkworms, the Prime_Minister bought fried chickens and fried cicadas, and two notebooks for me. He planted the pansy seeds himself, buying them from a pansy specialist. What to buy out of the year 's grist of nearly 15000 book titles? They had cleaned_up an old ice_box and begun to buy fifty pound blocks of ice in town, as the electric_refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there. Having achieved this end, he was able to buy 116000 square_miles in the valleys of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. In one extreme case, cited by a Pittsburgh psychologist, an office worker 's wife refused to have sexual_relations with her husband unless he bought her the luxuries she demanded. They buy some from our colored grocers and they are patronized by some of the best white gentlemen in town''. In purchasing Louisiana, Jefferson had_to adopt Hamilton 's broad construction of the Constitution, and so did Madison in advocating the rechartering of Hamilton 's bank, which he had so strenuously opposed at its inception, and in adopting a Hamiltonian protective_tariff. He urged her to buy one of his machines- for$ 300. They went shopping in the neighborhood, and bought two loaves_of_bread with the ration coupons they had been given in Blois, and some cheese, and a dozen eggs, and a bag of oranges from a peddler in the Place_Redoute- the first oranges they had seen since they landed. This section shall not apply to corporations purchasing such stock solely for investment and not using the same by voting or otherwise to bring_about, or in attempting to bring_about, the substantial lessening of competition``. One advantage that would come to the city in having a full-time director, he said, is that East_Providence would become eligible to apply to the federal_government for financial_aid in purchasing equipment needed for a sound civil_defense program. Do buy all-purpose mugs or cups. I bought 50 shares of Diversified Growth_Stock Fund on Oct. 23, 1959, and 50 more shares of the same mutual_fund on Feb. 8, 1960. Manchester then had two competing power_companies until 1904, when the Manchester_Light_and_Power_Company purchased the transmission system of the Vail_Company. In Chicago, some time ago, Mr._H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a`` magic spike''- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent- sold by the Vrilium_Company of Chicago for$ 306 as a cure-all. Sol_Phillips had purchased the Alliance_Furniture_Mart seventeen years ago. He had made such a fuss about buying that second car that he knew he was vulnerable. We attended the premieres of his concertos, symphonies, and suites; we studied, taught, and performed his piano_sonatas, chamber_music, gavottes, and marches; we bought his records and played them in our schools and universities. Cardboard noisemakers, substitutes for the unavailable tin models, were being hawked and bought at makeshift stands every few yards along Broadway, and one 's ears were continually serenaded by the horns' rasps and bleats. Lee renewed his pressure on Mrs._Shaefer to buy his machine when she visited him the next day. Maris purchases$ 100 suits from Simpson 's in New_York. A fund-raising_drive to buy tractors and machinery was launched. I hope Raphael bought them whole''. It 's best to buy them fresh from a dealer who is working to improve them. At_least he could buy the equipment for his workshop. Do buy meat the day or the day before you intend to cook it. It is difficult to pinpoint the time_of_origin of the state purchasing automobiles for use of employees in Rhode_Island. To be eligible to borrow from a Bank_for_Cooperatives, a cooperative must be an association in which farmers act together in processing and marketing farm products, purchasing farm supplies, or furnishing farm business services, and must meet the requirements set_forth in the Farm_Credit_Act_of_1933, as amended. The Company maintained a store at which products of England could be purchased and brought_in for the new merchants on the understanding that they trading in furs. On February 17, Russell and Cook were sent to the Pena_Flor community on the Vermejo to see about renting_out ranches the company had purchased. RAMSEY, as SMU 's food wrangler, buys enough groceries to serve 32000 meals a week. Although the Administration 's program cut crop acreage to the lowest point since 1934, farmers, with the help of extra fertilizer and good_weather, are getting such high yields per acre that many are being forced to buy new harvesting machines. In the famous Danbury_Hatters case, a suit was brought against the union by the Loewe_Company for monopolistic practices, e._g., trying to persuade consumers not to purchase the product of the struck manufacturer. Mantle, more concerned with dress, buys his suits four at_a_time at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and pays as much_as$ 250 each. Near the end of his service he wrote that when the war was over he was going to buy two pups, name one of them`` fall-in'' and the other`` close-up'', and_then shoot them both,`` and that will be the end of' fall-in' and' close-up'''. Barbara bought some cotton aprons, and Harold bought shoestrings. They 're buying fun and adventure and family experiences. Investors who wanted 100 shares in many cases ended_up with 25, and customers who had put_in a bid to buy 400 shares found themselves with 100 and counted themselves lucky to get that many. Commerce_Department officials were_inclined to explain the April sales decline as a reaction from a surge of consumer buying in March. The reasons are obvious:( 1) the state is buying in quantity, and( 2) it has no federal excise or state sales_tax to pay. What to buy for adult and child readers, for lovers of fiction and nonfiction, for a clientele whose wants are incredibly diversified, when your budget is pitifully small? Was I supposed to buy a funny hat and a rattle for Jessica? This system provides long- and short-term credit to farmers and their cooperative marketing, purchasing, and business service organizations. `` It is as though'', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio_broadcast which I bought( following Father_Coughlin and pre_empting the Eddie_Cantor, Manhattan_Merry-go-round and Major_Bowes shows)`` That Man in the White_House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!'' He even buys a_lot_of the products he sees advertised- despite_the_fact_that the copy makes no special bid for his favor and sponsors rarely use any but white models in commercials. And the Jerebohms are willing to buy it. You can keep your machinery investment down by buying good secondhand machinery, by sharing the cost and upkeep of machinery with a neighbor, and by hiring someone with machinery to do certain jobs. Therefore, the lumber is bought in planks and ripped to size for battens, etc., on a table saw. If you are not well the area in which you wish_to locate, or if you are not sure that you and your family will like and make a success of farming, usually you would do better to rent a place for a year or two before you buy. When the stock_exchange opened this morning, many dealers were quick to purchase shares in Douglas, Lockheed and United_Aircraft and prices rose substantially. You can get year-' round air conditioners in the same variety of styles in_which you buy a furnace alone- high or low boy, horizontal or counterflow. More_than 20 million people live on farms and they own a fourth of the nation 's trucks, buy more gasoline than any other industry and provide a major market for home_appliances, chemicals and other products. In_this same society, the plain citizen can with an average of only one-fifth his income buy more calories than he can consume. For many reasons, the demand to buy shares in the Dallas-headquartered company was tremendous. All framing in Hotei is one-inch mahogany which, in the dressed state you buy it, is about the 13 16- inch thickness specified in the drawings. It 's cheaper to buy Wall-Tex and cover your outdoor table. Enough trading_stamps were collected to buy a 12- passenger station_wagon. The property sales assistance program is designed to assist small business_concerns that may wish to buy property offered for sale by the Federal_Government. The fat man has trouble buying life_insurance or has to pay higher premiums. It embraced determining when to purchase and when to trade vehicles, who was to drive, when and where repairs were to be made, where gasoline and automobile services were to be obtained and other allied matters. If we break the minister to our bit, we are buying back our own sins. When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station_wagon, feeling in his trouser_cuffs for the ignition_key which he had dropped a moment before, she came_out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window. He improvised as he went_along, completing a life-size clay figure, then bought yards of an inexpensive material from a draper, wet the lightweight cloth in a basin and covered it over with clay that Argiento brought from the bank of the Tiber, to the consistency of thick mud. Our experience has taught us that it pays to buy the best equipment possible, from pipes to brushes. They had bought their house in Catatonia after investigating all the regions of suburbia surrounding New_York; they had chosen Catatonia because of its reputation for excellent schools, beaches, and abundance of names. This would seem to indicate that we are trying neither`` to halt an influx of migrants'' nor are we`` setting_up such standards for development that only the well-to-do could afford to buy land and build in the new sites''. The Washington state_supreme_court ruled that the state 's occupation tax applied to sales, made at cost to an oil_company, by a wholly-owned subsidiary set_up to purchase certain supplies without divulging the identity of the parent. SBA works closely with the principal property disposal installations of the Federal_Government in reviewing sales programs and identifying those types of property that small business_concerns are most likely to be interested in purchasing. The reasons are that America generally believes that she can buy anything with dollars, and that she compulsively strives to be liked. The dog refused to be scared_off, so Kahler had purchased some small firecrackers. He told once of how he switched his style of playing to jazz after listening to two old Armstrong records he bought in the Flea_Market in Paris. `` You bought it''? Some general things to look_for in a site, if you have n't already bought one, are accessibility, water drainage, and orientation. If Nikita buys a small plot in some modest rural cemetery, everyone will understand. He went down to Mills_and_Bradley 's Hardware_Store and bought a full set of carpenter 's tools, including a rotary power_saw and several other pieces of machinery that Mr._Mills said were essential for and doweling, whatever they were. Do n't forget to buy a plastic pastry brush for basting with sauces. Before you look_for a farm you 'll need_to know( 1) the kind and scale of farming you want_to undertake; and( 2) whether you want_to buy or rent. When he needs money to buy something like, say, the Rolls-Royce he keeps near his vegetable_patch, he takes_a_flyer in the sale of surplus army. Murray makes a complete line of ginning equipment except for driers and cleaners, and this machinery is purchased from a Dallas-based firm. I bought a new little foreign bomb. `` I bought my first dress from him when I was still a struggling young_actress'', she reminisces. Never once did he buy me a single gift and for our third anniversary he gave me a dislocated jaw. Local libraries find, too, that the new plan saves tax dollars because books can be bought through the system, and since the system buys in bulk it is able to obtain larger discounts than would be available to an individual library. And another time, without accusation:`` You never wore that scarf I bought you''. Too many plant officials are all_too eager to buy a package program from an insurance_company simply because it works for another plant. A two-family house at 255 Brook_Street has been purchased by Brown_University from Lawrence_J._Sullivan, according to a deed filed Monday at City_Hall. The state purchases and assigns grades of cars according_to_need and position status of driver and use of vehicle. As you pull_out of your motel or national_park home-for-the-night, visit a market and buy just what you need for the next meal. From 1896 until 1910 John_H._Whipple was manager of Western_Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark_Wait. When she said that she did have the money, he said that she could come_in for treatment with his office model until she was ready to buy one. He then sold her some capsules that he asserted would take_care of the tumors and cysts until she could collect the money for buying his machine. The inventory you acquired from me is going_to be easy to move; you can't very well sidle up to people on the street and ask if they want to buy a hot Bodhisattva. You may deduct these payments even though your child uses the money to purchase his own clothing or other necessities which you are normally obligated to furnish him, and even though you may be entitled to his services. It was a_level at which some of the investors standing on the sidelines were thought likely to buy the pivotal issues represented in the averages. `` All_right, you bastards'', I said,`` the great actor is_about to buy a drink''. Other reasons mentioned by one-third or more of the builders were`` resistance to high interest_rates, cost advantage of buying over renting has narrowed, shelter market nearing saturation and prospects unable to qualify''. If the house you plan to buy or build won n't have big overhangs, you can still do a fair job of keeping the sun off walls and windows with properly designed trellises, fences and awnings. Michelangelo bought some lumber. Since the land he desired lay within the great northern empire of the Hudson's_Bay_Company, he purchased great blocks of the Company's stock with the view to controlling its policies. Her presence only made Letch more distant and irritable and, in the hurry of buying Chateau_Belletch, I had neglected to consider a room for Baby-dear, so there was no place to put her, anyhow. When he returned home, the station_wagon loaded with tools, Jinny had gone with a friend to some meeting in the village, using the recently purchased second car. Kowalski, a roofer who seldom worked last winter, already was in_arrears on their recently purchased split-level home when the tragedy staggered him with medical and funeral bills. As I have repeatedly stated, this provision is much more restrictive than the general law, popularly the Buy American Act. As a result of the new outlook for turnpikes, investors who bought toll-road bonds when these securities ranked as outright speculations are now finding new hope for their investments. Dried_fruits are purchased from sources where they are neither sulphured nor sprayed. One said,`` When I get a cold I buy a bottle of whiskey for it, and within a_few hours it 's gone''. F._Morris_Cochran, university vice_president and business manager, said the house has been bought to provide rental housing for faculty families, particularly for those here for a limited time. Each was told to purchase material if he felt_like it.