Word: buys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haven Railroad has added something new this year to Yale game ticket-selling by buying a batch of tickets in the Yale section. The railroad will try to sell the tickets to its patrons, who will be able to buy admission and transportation to the game all at once...
Actually, for the past month, young Field and "Pete" Akers had been acting as top dogs without benefit of top titles. Field had long fretted that the morning and evening editions of the Sun-Times looked too much alike: there was little reason for anyone to buy both. Now he had started out to make them look as different as possible...
Effusive Abe Spanel, board chairman of the International Latex Corp. (baby pants, girdles, pillows), likes to buy space in newspapers to print his own opinions and those of people he admires (e.g., Sumner Welles, Robert M. Hutchins)-and incidentally to plug his company. In March 1945, Pegler took off on Businessman Spanel and his ads, saying one was "a poetic construction well expressing the attitude of some demagogues of the extreme left ... A native of Russia and an admirer of the Soviet system might be pardoned in the error." The Journal-American headlined the column: AMERICAN PAPERS SELL ADVERTISING SPACE...
...Manhattan last week, an obscure company named Connecticut Boola, Inc. paid $4,500,000 to R. H. Macy & Co., to buy Macy's spanking new nine-story building in San Francisco. But there is nothing obscure about Connecticut Boola's parent: Boola is the wholly owned subsidiary of Yale University. The new owner promptly leased the store back to Macy's for 31 years and two months, at an average annual rental of $240,000. Thus Yale became Macy's San Francisco landlord...
...completing the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. "Sometimes," says McShain, "there's money in such jobs, sometimes there isn't. But I'd rather break even on a monumental building than make a million on an uninspired warehouse." Nevertheless, McShain did well enough to buy the 600-room Barclay Hotel on Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square, to become part owner of the 400-room Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City, and co-owner and president of the Atlantic City Traction...