Word: buying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America, a mere one-half of 1% for the U.S., which does not trade with Red China. Easing the embargoes is expected to expand East-West trade slightly but not spectacularly. The real barriers to trade are the facts that the Communists often have not had the cash to buy or have not been able to sell what the West wants...
...small Philadelphia lumber business and a placid, happy marriage. Backed by capital that may or may not have come from Wall Street, Littlefield went back to the South in 1867 with a bold scheme that was tactically watertight-and morally as leaky as a sieve. The plan was to buy up defaulted North Carolina railroad bonds for pennies, lobby or bribe the legislature into redeeming them, and sell on the rise. Littlefield found a ready ally in a pious, serpentine North Carolina banker named George W. Swepson...
Dauphinot sold a new American & Foreign Power issue, took on the job of selling stock of other companies. He found that often the trick was to get the most prominent citizen in a village to buy. For example, when the mayor in one town bought, 17 others lined up to buy. Soon Dauphinot branched out more, became Brazil's most active stock underwriter, was doing business in New York, Colombia and Venezuela. All told, Deltec has sold stock to some 50,000 Brazilians, 80% of whom, Dauphinot estimates, had never owned stock before. The buyers put their money into...
...aerosol shaving creams, and more than 10 million women put on aerosol hair sprays. The 250 different aerosol products on the market can stop runs in hosiery, smoke bees out of hives, extinguish fires, bandage wounds and deodorize homes, pets or people. Said a Manhattan merchandising expert: "People will buy anything in those fascinating pushbutton cans-even air." Aerosol men agreed. Recently Liquid Glaze, Inc. brought out an aerosol can of compressed gas called Spair, which can inflate a flat tire to 22 Ibs. pressure in six seconds...
...first proxy battle of consequence was at Colonial Airlines, where he took over briefly (nine months) as president in 1951. He stepped back in as a consultant a couple of months later when a stockholders' proxy fight developed because of proposals from two competing airlines to buy Colonial. Landa pacified the stockholders, managed to hold off any purchase until Colonial stock had risen. Eastern Air Lines eventually bought Colonial at $24 a share v. the $7.62 market price when Landa stepped...