Word: brokering
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...sons and daughters have won more than $14 million, Bret owes his name to the fact that he was bred by Pennsylvania's Hanover Shoe Farms, which is owned by the board chairman of Hanover Shoe Co., and has been producing champions for 39 years. A Cleveland coal broker, Richard Downing, paid $50,000 for the colt at a yearling sale in 1963, turned him over to Trainer Ervin, who was on the verge of retiring after more than 5,500 victories on the track. Ervin took the budding pacer for a spin, and changed his plans...
...that day, the U.S. Senate broke off debate on the Russian wheat deal, and prospects looked dim. In the next 48 hours, soybean oil tumbled to 7.60. The commodities exchanges began pressuring Ira Haupt-by far the biggest broker for De Angelis-to put up another $14.1 million in margin to cover Tino's vast contracts. The Haupt brokers frantically called Tino for the money. But Tino could not make...
...West Virginia in the course of buying into Wheeling Steel?but his trips are mainly for general impressions rather than to learn exact detail of operations. When he has finally made up his mind about a company, the hot line to Sutro & Co. of Los Angeles, his primary broker, lights up and Simon begins...
Baltimore's pride is the team fielded by the Mt. Washington Club-an organization of old braves, some of whom have been out of college for ten years or more. The coach is a torts lawyer, the star attack man a 33-year-old insurance broker; there are also two stockbrokers on the squad. The club pays no salaries, awards no letters, has never even got around to hanging the framed team photographs in its red brick clubhouse five miles from downtown Baltimore. Practice scrimmages are studiedly informal: the losers buy the winners beer. "We just have a good...
Professors with a penchant for horse steak have had to go without for the last two weeks. The Faculty Club was to drop it from the menu when their New York meat broker announced that his source had run out. According to Charles L. Coulson, manager of the Faculty Club, horse heat is "mostly for cat and dog consumption, but during World War II when there was a meat shortage, it put on the menu, and it's been there since...