Word: dealers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boyd began his career in the early 1900s, selling typewriters. He later opened an office-supply business in Muskegon, Mich., and was that city's first Ford dealer. In 1928 he invested in the Mount Forest Fur Farms of America, which raised muskrats. The company went bankrupt in 1931. He helped reorganize the failed firm as Vermilion Bay, and the company struck it rich when oil and gas were later discovered on the Louisiana muskrat farm. Vermilion now collects royalties on 60,000 acres of land in Louisiana. Last year the company had profits of $1.6 million on sales...
...refreshing to see a politician like John Glenn who rejects the "wheeler-dealer" approach to a national election [June 20]. So far, he represents the most responsible candidate for President. Insisting on making your own decisions and cautiously establishing political allies is an asset in my opinion, not a liability. Unfortunately, Americans are increasingly electing Presidents because of their personality. Instead, we should reconsider and vote for those candidates who, like Glenn, show the best leadership qualities...
...erosion; once gone, it takes decades to replace. The sodbusters are either big operators who buy land and plow on a major scale, or small ranchers who break their own land for a quick cash fix. "I want to make a buck," concedes John Greytak, 53, a former Datsun dealer and present grain operator who since 1974 has broken 250,000 acres of grazing land, mostly in Montana, and stores some 30% of his wheat production in giant bins (for which the Government pays him 26.5? per bu. each year). Robert W. Thomas has put more than 20,000 acres...
...with the gummy red spaceship that moves around the outskirts of Duluth. It contains a race of highly competent centipedes who can change themselves into beautiful women or Hubert Humphrey. The aliens do not threaten the commonweal nearly as much as do the Aztec Terrorists Society, a black drug dealer named Big John and Police Lieutenant Darlene Ecks, who enjoys strip-searching suspects...
DIVORCED. Robert MacNeil, 52, TV journalist and co-host of PBS's nightly MacNeil/Lehrer Report; and Jane Doherty MacNeil, 42, antiques dealer and photographers' and jewelers' agent; after 18 years of marriage (his second, her first), two children; in White Plains...