Word: broker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bowler hat, black jacket, sponge-bag pants and white spats, which he wore as a broker in London's "City" until a few months ago, were far away and forgotten by 6 ft. 3 in. Robert H. Bristowe as he cruised south along the west coast of Africa one night last week in a special service detachment of His Majesty's Royal Navy. Broker Bristowe, a nautical-minded man since boyhood, retired from the Navy five years ago but now, ranked Lieut. Commander, he was back, and in the hot night off France's colony of Senegal...
Married. Carole Landis (real name: Frances Ridste), 21, blonde cinemactress; and Yacht Broker Willis Hunt Jr., 28; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...accordance with J. P. Morgan & Co.'s changeover last February from a private bank to a public bank and trust company (TiME, Feb. 26), Junius Spencer Morgan, J. P. the younger's elder son, sold the family's last Exchange seat (purchased about 1906) to Bond Broker Saul Schwamm...
...Broker Eggleston, onetime farm boy, thought up the "Enterprise" in 1937 after being prevented for want of wrappers from competing in the lucrative Old Gold contest. Since then he has piled up more than a hundred varieties of box tops and wrappers, getting as much as 50? for one item in his stock. Broker Eggleston gets his wares at a heavy discount from churches, orphanages, political clubs, usually peddles them retail from 1? to 7?. Included in his bales at the moment are wrappers from Bit-O-Honey and Mars Milky Way candy, Camay, Oxydol and Ivory Soap, box tops...
...Broker Eggleston's mailing list includes 2,000 names. He ballyhoos his box tops in such periodicals as Contest Magazine and Contest World News. Mostly veteran contestants, his customers have grapevine methods of discovering coming contests, create bull markets for prize box tops and wrappers long before contests are formally announced. Neat side line of the Enterprise is the sale of products denuded of wrappers by young Eggleston...