Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moneyed U.S. consumer who performed so nobly in 1958 will buy even more heavily this year. So predict the retailers who sell and the manufacturers who make the goods. At Chicago's annual winter home-furnishing and appliance show last week, 45,000 buyers, salesmen and manufacturers from 11,483 firms started writing orders for the new year and swapping predictions about the future. Consensus: with the economy very definitely on the upbeat, U.S. retail sales in 1959 should post a banner year. Said one Washington discounter, who ordered $1,000,000 worth of goods and reports...
VERTICAL-TAKE-OFF planes, which rise and land with rotors but cruise with propellers, are expected to go into service in Europe by 1962. British European Airways intends to buy six VTOLs from Britain's Fairey Aviation Co., fly them to Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam...
...Senator Robert A. Taft because Taft's early isolationism was "a policy as fantastic in theory as it is impossible in practice." Eaton prevented the Taft family from merging Cincinnati's Enquirer with their successful Times-Star by lending the employees $7,600,000 to buy the paper from the management...
...fight for British Aluminium began in 1957, when Reynolds and other U.S. metals interests quietly began buying Aluminium shares. Although the company came out of World War II wjth 3.7% of world aluminum production, timid sales policies had cut its share to .9%. But it had a reputation for quality, plus substantial assets and a promising moneymaker in its new smelter at Baie Comeau, Canada. Last April, apparently afraid that Reynolds or some other aggressive U.S. concern would buy control, Aluminium's chairman, Viscount Portal of Hungerford. got stockholder approval to boost the firm's shares from...
...that this was too little, Reynolds sent its General Counsel Joseph H. McConnell, onetime NBC and Colgate-Palmolive president, to London to work out a better counteroffer. McConnell got together with Tube, a moneymaker with interests ranging from bicycles to nucleonics, agreed to set up a new company to buy Aluminium. Tube would hold a 51% interest, so keep the new company nominally British; Reynolds would hold the other 49%. Tube-Reynolds asked Lord Portal to hold up the Alcoa deal, promised to pay his shareholders an "attractive" price, even promised to retain the Portal management...