Word: buys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promote, hold, manage and direct aviation meets, exhibitions and contests of all sorts; to encourage and develop aviation; to manufacture, buy, sell and deal in balloons, aeroplanes and any and all machines, vehicles and contrivances for the navigation...
...honor and position would have been unthinkable for a Mexican woman. Until well into the 20th century, a woman's place was in the home-except during wartime, when she was expected to fight like a man. She could not get a passport on her own, could not buy, sell or manage property without the consent of her husband or father. She could not legally leave home until she was 30 (unless married), could not vote or practice law or medicine. As late as 1925, Archbishop José Mora y del Rio objected to feminine wage earning...
...Berlin refugee, a sharp lawyer named Friedrich Grunwald. Operating H. Jasper & Co., the two began to move fast, using the take-over expert's favorite tactic: after acquiring the controlling shares of a company, they would sell off its property, lease it back, use the cash acquired to buy more companies. H. Jasper & Co. gathered up blocks of apartment houses, movie theaters, billiard halls and a tannery, raked in high profits from one speculative deal after another...
...midst of Britain's increasing credit squeeze, Jasper's supply of money seemed endless. It turned out that recently most of the cash came from the State Building Society, a publicly owned savings-and-loan association supported by small depositors and designed to help people buy their own homes. Its motto: The Horn of Plenty. The horn was easily tapped by Jasper & Co. through Grunwald, who was also a lawyer representing State Building; he arranged for the Society to lend to Jasper on mortgages. All told, it lent Jasper $21.2 million of its currently estimated $40 million...
...companies worth $42 million. It was ready for its biggest deal: the take-over of London's powerful real-estate firm, Lintang Investments, which owns the biggest block of apartments (1,200) in Britain. Jasper bought 51% of Lintang's stock from the company, offered to buy all other outstanding, publicly held shares in a $20 million deal. While Lintang was pending, Jasper also offered to buy up the stock, worth about $4,000,000, in Cardiff's Ely Brewery (259 pubs...