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...Bulganin-Khrushchev tour of India [Nov. 28] suggests two prospective proprietors looking over a farm, accompanied by Real Estate Broker Nehru...
...Conway, Ark. Oldsmobile Dealer J. B. Silaz Jr., who complained that he could not get enough cars, actually wanted to operate "as a new-car broker rather than as a dealer," i.e., sell to bootleggers...
...News was sold by its five trustees, heirs of the late Publisher Victor Henry Hanson, who, over 36 years, built the News (daily circ. 180,215, Sunday circ. 219,804) into one of the most prosperous U.S. dailies. The deal was started more than a year ago by Newspaper Broker Allen Kander (whose commission was around $500,000) and signed one afternoon in a Birmingham hotel room. Though self-made Publisher Newhouse prides himself on using his own money to buy news papers, he admitted reluctantly that the whopping price had sent him to Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange...
...week Wall Street was baking a pie much suited to Funston's taste; it was getting ready to float the first public stock issue of the Ford Motor Co. (TIME, Nov. 14). To Funston, this was a "landmark in the history of the ownership" of American business. To brokers, it was the biggest stock pie they had ever seen ($400 million). And everyone seemed to want to buy a bite. Orders flooded in by mail and phone; thousands of people who had never ventured inside a broker's office got ready to shell out their savings...
Around Phoenix, 55-year-old Bill Nelson described himself as a retired business man, indicating that hie had been a cattle broker. Every morning he would drive downtown in his 1953 Ford pickup truck to look over the stock-market quotations. One morning last week he got into his truck as usual, waved goodbye to his wife, and attempted to start the engine. There was a thunderous explosion, and Bill's broken body fell near the driveway, 15 feet from the pile of junk that had been a truck...