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...Justice Department is suing him for $400,000 on the ground that he used fraudulent means to buy surplus Government property), Balmer sponsored Mansure for the GSA job, and then began to advise him frequently on important contracts. At just the right time Balmer registered as an insurance broker and obtained, through Mansure's GSA, a whopping insurance contract at the U.S. Government's Nicaro nickel plant in Cuba. Estimated take for Balmer's firm...
...professorship was established two weeks ago in memory of Carl M. Loeb, a New York banker and broker. The income from the $500,000 endowment provides for the salary, research, and other supporting expenses...
...founded to bring order out of advertising's pre-World War I chaos, when ad agencies often kicked back part of their commissions to publishers, or split fees with advertisers. A.A.A.A. also helped to change the agency's original role as a publishers' space broker. Today's ad agency works not for the publishers but for the advertiser, helps him find markets, choose media, check results. By standardizing the agency fee at 15%, A.A.A.A. virtually eliminated price wars in the advertising industry...
Quite by accident, Hari meets Sushila, a dark, big-boned, full-breasted girl with tumbling black hair ("A real Punjabi beauty," clucks his aunt). Soon the marriage-broker mills are grinding, and Hari, as he almost admits to himself, is secretly relieved. Amrita's clan also starts making other arrangements. Still spouting defiance and undying love, Amrita and Hari find that the sight of each other is not a stab at the heart but a pain in the neck. At novel's end, Hari is leading Sushila seven times around the ritual wedding fire, and Amrita...
Into a Pittsburgh stockbroker's office last week walked a man with $300,000 in his pocket. Said he, plunking the money on the broker's desk: "Put it in Ford.'' Buy-Ford fever was running high throughout the U.S., as Ford Motor Co. prepared for the Jan. 18 launching of its first public stock sale (TIME, Nov. 14). The Ford Foundation, owner of the stock to be sold, had asked brokers and dealers to allot each customer initially no more than 100 shares. But it looked as if most customers would be lucky...