Word: distributorship
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...complete with blackboards, chalk, and 20 empty desks, to study in." Only after six pages of computer sketches of Snoopy and praise for the Dartmouth campus--traditional Ivy Covered in rural New England setting--do the authors drop Dartmouth's one beautiful feature: the grocery store runs the largest distributorship of beer between Boston and Montreal...
...consider himself tired. At 18 he borrowed $100 to attend a business school in Chillicothe, Mo., came home after 90 days $480 richer, thanks to a weekly raffle of men's suits that he conducted on the side. He then borrowed $3,500 more to buy a petroleum distributorship in Mississippi, gradually added a tank-truck fleet and a string of service stations. Drafted into the Air Force during World War II, Milner found that the Army did not require all of his talent. While making $68 a month as a sergeant, he made as much...
...Mundo, owned by the multimillionaire clan of Amadeo H. Barletta (U.S. investments, expropriated Cuban TV stations, G.M. distributorship), dispatches some of its 2,000 copies under "official" sponsorship: sailors in Castro's coast guard, restive under the dictatorship, smuggle in the twelve-page, heavily illustrated standard-size paper. Other copies reach their destination by private boat nd through the diplomatic pouch of anti-Castro governments. The eight-column paper (circ. 11,000) is varityped in Miami, sent to New Jersey for printing, then flown back to Miami. Of El Mundo's staff of 25, only four or five...
...save Maserati without wrecking their remaining businesses, which are independently solvent (annual sales: $2,000,000), the Orsis offered Driver Fangio a 50% share in Maserati for $625,000. Fangio, who has a thriving G.M. distributorship in Buenos Aires, could raise only half the necessary funds. That left Maserati at the mercy of the state-owned Credito Italiano, which had the right to turn the firm over to the government. Last week the plant was still running-but for the government and without the Orsis...
Irving J. Levine, tight-lipped president of K & L Beverage Co., told how he and Beck sweet-talked St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch into giving Levine's company the sole distributorship of Budweiser in Seattle, and later in other areas of Beck's domain of Washington and Alaska. Then, said Levine, Dave Beck Jr. and a partner each put up $24,500 for a total of 49% interest in K & L, and Dave Jr. became vice president of the company. Two years later, Mrs. Dave Beck Sr. paid Levine $40,000 for a 40% interest...