Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was "old Colonel Mulberry Sellers." Nominee Smith used him constantly. Example: "General Lord [of the budget bureau] holds up the data in his hand like this, and in the manner of Colonel Sellers who said: 'Nine million people in Africa have sore eyes. Buy this little package' he says. 'By our industry we have saved...
...news came. From Chicago, President George B. Everitt† wrote stockholders. Interesting was the promise that Jan. 1 would see 200 chain stores in operation. But transcend ent for traders was the common stock increase from 1,285,000 to 6,000,000 shares, giving stockholders the right to buy two new shares, at $17.50 each, for every share now held...
...side speculators and new faces in the streets. On Saturday morning, with phonographs blaring forth the Harvard songs and marches from every dormitory; students rushing their girls up and down the streets in a seemingly aimless fashion, and dozens of hawkers with feathers and souvenirs nobody ever seems to buy, it reaches its high point, and then at the game it is released. It may go off with a loud bang or subside with a melancholy "whoosh!" depending on the circumstances, but in any case the balloon is empty until the next game comes around...
...Loree had his option to buy control of the B. R. & P. He had had it more than a year. It lapsed; he renewed it, expensively, by payment of a goodly "binder...
...experiment, he faces totally different problems, different programs. He plans to buy "a few selected mills" (at the present extraordinarily low rates) to turn out unfinished cloth. He will add finishing plants to bleach, dye and print the cotton, then sell the product himself through his own converters, including Cohn-Hall-Marx. United Merchants & Manufacturers, Inc.* will then control the entire textile process, from the purchase of raw materials to the sale of curtains and draperies...