Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ended the big scene of Bill Hunt's Chinese melodrama. Last week, when Marty Gold, executive vice president of Hunt & Co., turned up in Shanghai with ownership of the firm in his pocket, the final curtain was on its way down...
Oldtime traders found it hard to believe that Hunt had sold out. In 20 years of eager-beaver business, first as vice consul, then as U.S. shipping board agent, finally as head of Hunt & Co., Bill Hunt had put his monogram on a sizable hunk of the Celestial Kingdom. Through Hunt & Co. he had exclusive distribution rights to 250 key products manufactured by 70-odd U.S. firms, had sold motors, electric trolleys, machine tools, steel buildings with a careful hand. Tirelessly the Hunt fingers had probed every phase of Chinese commercial life, often turned up in a competitor...
Bigger Fields, Greener Lands? Bill Hunt spent little time waiting around for Government business. If no plums came his way, he shook the tree, and none too gently. Shaking brought down these prizes...
...time, through a dicker with China National Tea Corp., Hunt & Co. controlled all the tea in China...
...Hunt Engineering Corp. got the pick of Chinese power projects...