Word: broker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, the planetarium had received more than 18,000 reservations and requests for information. A man from Munich, Germany wanted to build a hotel on the moon, and a bellhop from Marion, Ohio a skating rink on Venus. A New York fur broker asked about trapping rights; a radio cowboy saw a chance "to get in on the ground floor of radio business on Venus...
...Allard with Cadillac engine was the combination that Erwin Goldschmidt was counting on. It got him off well. During the first lap, 34-year-old Driver Goldschmidt, a prosperous Manhattan insurance broker, worked up from his 26th-place starting position to third...
...June when 17-year-old Topper, chairman of Putney's student council, graduated near the top of his class. This summer, Libby toured Europe. Topper went to California with Stephen Wasserman, a classmate, to work in one of the mines owned by Stephen's father (wealthy Manhattan Broker William Stix Wasserman) and to do some mountain climbing...
...attitude toward Asian Communism. Said he: "I understand that our recognition of [the Chinese Communist] government has conferred no advantages on our traders, whom it was mainly intended to help . . . The impression is given . . . that India intends to adopt a detached attitude and act as an honest broker between the two parties. My Lords, it is impossible to act as an honest broker between right and wrong...
Married. Renee Carroll, fortyish, Manhattan's taffy-haired, mink-coated No. 1 hatcheck girl, since opening day in 1927 queen of the cloakroom at Sardi's restaurant; and Louis Schonceit, 50, Broadway ticket broker and show backer; he for the second time; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...