Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very much interested in the book which was written by Mrs. Ruth A. Jeremiah Gottfried who compiled the recipes for dishes of all nations which were published in book form as the "Questing Cook" and I would like very much to know where I can buy copies of that book. A book of that type would be very valuable to me in all my hotels and if you would only inform me as to where I can purchase same I will appreciate...
Orleans rushed into their City Hall to make merry with expansive Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe. The school children of New Orleans were instructed to contribute a penny each to buy a silver scroll of thanks for President Coolidge. Mayor O'Keefe called for thanksgiving services in all the churches. The Flood Control bill was law at last...
Scatterbrained John Thoening, a youth, wished to come to the U. S. He secured a visaed passport, but when he set out to buy a boat ticket John Thoening found that he had too little money. So he took a jug of water, a string of sausages, some pumpernickel, a hammock and crawled into a big wooden box. A friend nailed up the box and wrote on the top of it an address in West 84th Street, Manhattan. The box was put aboard the Hamburg American liner, Cleveland; by the time that the Cleveland reached the high seas, the inside...
Concurrently he resigned from his well paid post to become head of Hahn Department Stores Inc. Its plans: to buy up department stores in dozens of cities from coast to coast, doing a total of $100,000,000 business the first year...
Sound investment advice is this: Watch new industries; determine which company is going to dominate the new field; then buy as much of the common stock of that business as your nerve permits. There is always a new industry or type of business. One was foreshadowed last week when Lew Hahn, famed head of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, said: ". . . some day there may be in the field of retailing a distributing enterprise as great as the United States Steel Corporation is in the field of production...