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 power machinery that Mr. Mills said were essential for babbiting and doweling, whatever they were.

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.

Wine bought from a dealer should ideally be allowed to rest for several weeks before it is served.

He bought and sold several farms, including Knob Creek Farm.

In 1890 the firm of Hildesheimer and Faulkner bought several of her drawings of her rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, to illustrate verses by Frederic Weatherly titled A Happy Pair.

For example the People's Bank of China and the Bank of Japan have on occasion bought several hundred billions of U. S. Treasuries, presumably in order to stop the decline of the U. S. dollar versus the renminbi and the yen.

After several on-again / off-again talks with Atari in May and June 1984, Tramiel had secured his funding and bought Atari's Consumer Division ( which included the console and home computer departments ) in July.

However, mostly since 2000, due to the always increasing expenditures, several teams, including works teams from car makers and those teams with minimal support from the automotive industry, have become bankrupt or been bought out by companies wanting to establish a team within the sport ; these buyouts are also influenced by Formula One limiting the number of participant teams.

He entered the service of the company ( which by then was no longer owned by the family ) on 1 June 1941 and bought back stock several years later, to ensure the family controlled the company again.

Brabham retired to Australia after the 1970 Formula One season, where he bought a farm and maintained various business interests, which included the Engine Developments racing engine manufacturer and several garages.

One of Drexel's other clients bought several Storer warrants and sold them back to the high-yield bond department.

Beginning in 1914, both Lasky and Famous Players released their films through a start-up company, Paramount Pictures Corporation, organized early that year by a Utah theatre owner, W. W. Hodkinson, who had bought and merged several smaller firms.

In August 2002, several ex-PGP team members formed a new company, PGP Corporation, and bought the PGP assets ( except for the command line version ) from NAI.

Following several years of losses and to avoid the economic effects of a closure of the company, the St Helena government eventually bought a majority share in the company in 1974.

The Keswick family, in consortium with several London-based banks and financial institutions, bought out the controlling shares of the Buchanan-Jardine family in 1959, but subsequently sold most of the shares during the 1961 public offering, retaining only about 10 % of the company.

Since most Serbs today live in towns and cities, the badnjak is symbolically represented by several leaved oak twigs that can be bought at marketplaces or received in churches.

The book was once lost in China until Qing dynasty mathematician Luo Shilin bought a Korean printed edtion, and re published in Yangzhou, since then this book was reprinted several times.

One of the family's keenest customers was Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas James Birch, later Bosvile, a wealthy collector from Lincolnshire, who bought several specimens from them.

They purchased his script, bought several others, and hired him on staff.

Producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen took American Beauty to DreamWorks ; the fledgling film studio bought Ball's script for $ 250, 000, outbidding several other production bodies.

He began depositing the money in the Hanover Trust Bank of Boston ( a small bank on Hanover Street in the mostly Italian North End ), in the hope that once his account was large enough he could impose his will on the bank or even be made its president ; he bought a controlling interest in the bank through himself and several friends after depositing $ 3 million.

Ponzi lived luxuriously: he bought a mansion in Lexington, Massachusetts, with air conditioning and a heated swimming pool, and he maintained accounts in several banks across New England besides Hanover Trust.

Later, in 2001, Fox bought several stations owned by Chris-Craft Industries and its subsidiaries BHC Communications and United Television ( most of these were UPN affiliates, although one later became a Fox O & O ).

Thompson eventually bought the Southland Ice Company and turned it into Southland Corporation, which oversaw several locations which opened in the Dallas area.

The Royal Flight bought a few and a variant with a rear-loading ramp and a " kneeling " main undercarriage was sold to the RAF and several members of the Commonwealth as the Andover.

Providence finally managed to get Gorton out of the town, and he and some friends bought land at Pawtuxet on the west side of Narragansett Bay, five miles south but still within the jurisdiction of the Providence colony.

Gorton and company, however, promptly bought land from Miantonomi a few miles south of Pawtuxet, extending from the present Gaspee Point south to Warwick Neck and twenty miles inland.

* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

On 4 November 2003, voters approved a greenbelt plan under which the city government bought development rights to pieces of land adjacent to Ann Arbor to preserve them from sprawling development .< ref name =" greenbelt ">

In 1923 she bought a former deer park and vast sheep farm in the Troutbeck Valley called Troutbeck Park Farm, restoring its land, its thousands of Herdwick sheep, and establishing her as one of the major Herdwick sheep farmers in the area.

In 1914 Emilio bought a large amount of land in Ponce, Puerto Rico from successful business man, Narcisus Mage.

The land which is now Columbus was bought by General John Tipton and Luke Bonesteel in 1820.

After her husband Joshua Raymond died, Mercy moved with her family to northern New London, Connecticut ( later Montville ), where she bought much land.

He also frequently bought additional land in his own name.

With about $ 100, 000 in Federal grant money, the organization also bought land for the freedmen in what is today Liberia.

Four years later Polk sold his Somerville plantation and, together with his brother-in-law, bought 920 acres ( 3. 7 km² ) of land, a cotton plantation near Coffeeville, Mississippi.

Jacob then arrived in Shechem, where he bought a parcel of land, now identified as Joseph's Tomb.

Audubon bought land and slaves, founded a flour mill, and enjoyed his growing family.

They acquired large tracts of land, both in Europe and the Middle East ; they bought and managed farms and vineyards ; they built churches and castles ; they were involved in manufacturing, import and export ; they had their own fleet of ships ; and at one point they even owned the entire island of Cyprus.

Tens of thousands of colons entered Morocco and bought up large amounts of the rich agricultural land.

The board bought of land in Southern Columbia and started the construction of the new high school.

In 1877, Captain Joseph Calloway Lea and his family bought out Smith and Wilburn's claim and became the owners of most of the land of Roswell and the area surrounding it.

Similar to a condominium, the houses can be bought and sold but the land under the houses is rented on a 99-year lease.

North Campus is the most contiguous campus, built independently from the city on a large plot of farm land — approximately — that the university bought in 1952.

In 1632, the king bought the totality of the land and seigneury of Versailles from Jean-François de Gondi.

However, we know nothing about whether land could be bought and sold, whether it could be inherited, if so by what system ( primogenture or equally divided among heirs ), whether daughters received dowries and much more.

After most of the land had been bought, the truth of the property's owner was leaked to the Orlando Sentinel newspaper on October 20, 1965.

Narragansett Indians receiving Roger WilliamsIn the spring of 1636 Williams and a number of his followers from Salem began a settlement on land that Williams had bought from Massasoit, only to be told by Plymouth that he was still within their land grant.

Many Europeans bought land from Māori, but misunderstanding and different concepts of land ownership led to conflict and bitterness.