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Horsetrader David Harum never had such troubles. All Uncle Sam wanted to do last week was to be the honest broker between immovable Great Britain on one side and immovable Iran and Egypt on the other. It was late in the day, but nobody could say the U.S. didn't try-at least in its usual tentative...
...Somebody was always calling me and saying they heard I was in a well with Mr. Nathan and they wanted in on it. Also, there was one piece of real estate ne had called the office about and I called him and admonished him he could not be a broker for that real estate. Those were the only calls I recollect, and those were the subjects of the calls...
...broker, naturally,' said Picasso...
...Broker Forman said he snapped up the steel because he "saw a chance to make a fast buck. There's nothing illegal. Everybody makes a profit, even Uncle Sam. What's everybody screaming about?" When committee counsel asked if he had prepared a ceiling chart for OPS as required by law, Forman answered bluntly: "When they start talking about filling out forms and stuff for a ceiling price, I am not in the steel business...
Forman sold the steel to Cleveland's Martin J. Kutz, who passed it on at twice the mill price to Broker Jay Friedman. The anchor man on the daisy chain was Seymour Waldman, though he managed to get hold of only about half the steel. He sold it to the Daisy Manufacturing Co. of Plymouth, Mich, (air rifles, BB shot, toys) for $12.01. Waldman's price included a freight charge from La Crosse, Wis. (on which there is a 3% federal tax), even though during all six transactions the steel had never moved from Steubenville...