Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are also adequate resources available, from banks, insurance companies, and the business community, to help the community buy these businesses at a fair price--and indeed to help the community establish new businesses, like the EG&G Company, as well...
...conventional approach of both the black and white communities is simply to arrange to let black entrepreneurs buy these businesses now. This is, of course, very much in the ordinary business tradition, and will probably occur...
...ever want to own your own baseball team? Last spring two Harvard sophomores decided they did, so David Campbell and Bruce Shepherd attempted to form a public syndicate to buy the Red Sox. "Own a piece of the Sox," read an ad in the Boston Globe one weekend, and the next, Campbell and Shepherd had their pictures plastered across the sports pages of America, courtesy of the Associated Press, one of whose editors had seen the advertisement...
...models. They now control 10% of U.S. sales, and in Southern California, the auto industry's most lucrative regional market, they have cornered an impressive 25%. Ford's Executive Vice President Lee lacocca says that it is a matter of price. "People say: 'Where can I buy a car for $2,000?' It's that simple...
...Kilimanjaro. When it ventured overseas in 1957 with DC-4 flights to London and Bombay, E.A.A. happily discovered that traffic in English civil servants and schoolboys could make up the losses on domestic flights. Going intercontinental for keeps, it boldly spent $6,000,000, or double its assets, to buy two Comets. E.A.A. soon had the planes paying handsomely by flying them 14 hours...