Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Untalkative, small, muscular, shrewd, Zukor got along in the fur business. He and his partner, Morris Kohn, understood fur tradition?when a dealer tried to cheat them, one held him by the throat while the other ran to the bank to cash his check before he could stop payment. In 1897, surrounded by a tribal
Associated with Davison was the late Levi P. Morton, chairman, and the late Alexander J. Hemphill, president. Among their vice presidents was swarthy Charles Hamilton Sabin, Massachusetts farmer's son who in youth had been a flour dealer's clerk, and blond William Chapman Potter, Chicago-born mining engineer. The two were brothers-in-law, their wives the daughters of the late Paul Morton, variously President of the Burlington Railroad, Secretary of the Navy under Roosevelt. President of the Equitable. Mr. Potter still fondly calls himself a mining engineer, rather than a banker. He was long associated with the Guggenheims...
Estimated average value of a 1928 car was wholesale $650, retail $876; of a 1928 truck wholesale $709, retail $955. The difference between wholesale and retail prices paid for freight, storage, interest, dealer's profit...
...advertise Lucky Strike cigaret in 1929. Of this amount, $6,500,000 will be spent in newspapers, virtually every U.S. daily being included in the list; $3,000,000 will be spent for billboards, $1,200,000 for magazine space, $1,000,000 for window displays and other "dealer helps," and $600,000 for radio. The $12,300,000 appropriation is probably the largest sum ever invested in the advertising of one product. General Motors has spent about $17,000,000 in a year's advertising, but this amount included many cars, many agencies. The theme...
...world, bulbs of light blossom in the street, lights are in the houses, there is gaiety behind bright windows and darkness, enormous, hungry and patient, is compelled to crouch under the ocean or in the corners of closets. All this is expensive and Lawrence F. Jones, a radio dealer, decided that the Brooklyn Edison Co. had charged him too much for lighting his shop. Accordingly, he refused to pay their bill...