Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tractor. He soon caught the fancy of Co-Founder Charles E. Merrill, himself an Amherst man, and rose fast from salesman to bond department manager to sales manager. Carrying out Charlie Merrill's expansion policies, Win Smith in 1940 initiated and was a chief negotiator in the merger with E. A. Pierce & Co., was made managing partner of the joint firm. A year later he helped bring Fenner & Beane into the combine. From 1944 onward, Smith really ran the company for ailing Directing Partner Merrill. When Merrill died * (TIME, Oct.15, 1956), Smith took his title...
...unpaid salaries. Later the telephones were disconnected, the heat was shut off, and the local rug merchant came around to take back his carpeting. Last fall. $215,000 in debt, Belin filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. He explained that the Texas insurance companies that were to buy the bond issue were under investigation and that one was headed by Boy Wizard Ben-Jack Cage, who had been convicted of embezzlement (TIME, Nov. 4). But as Missouri newspapers soon found out, money was not the only root of the university's evils...
...over creditors' backs, fast-moving ex-Publisher Fox was finally arrested to face indictments charging him with nonpayment of $27,000 in wages to 93 Post staffers. After appearances before two judges and a brief sojourn in Suffolk superior court detention cell, Publisher Fox put up $5,000 bond, shelled out $1,260 of his debt, and was ordered to pay the balance by March 30 or go to jail...
...BIGGEST BOND ISSUE for a public utility in history of Pacific Northwest is making splash on Wall Street. The $250 million issue, floated by 140-firm investment syndicate for Washington's 775,000 kw. Rocky Reach Dam on Columbia River, was oversubscribed in advance despite tight money...
...Sharing. To clean up the bitter memories and the vast destruction left by Allied bombers, the government named Engineer-Lawyer Pierre Lefaucheux as boss. He refused to accept state subsidies. "If we do," said Lefaucheux, "the politicians will be telling us how to make door handles." Instead, he floated bond issues on the private market, got loans from U.S. and Swiss banks, used Marshall Plan money to buy machine tools and presses in the U.S. From the rubble rose some of the most highly automated factories in Europe. Renault also became a model of enlightened management...