Word: investers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fair, Whalen. with his irrepressible flair for salesmanship, almost singlehanded conned nation after reluctant nation into building pavilions, sold mil lions of dollars in fair bonds. He wrote the contracts and signed them, hired the key personnel, played competing corporations off on one another to get them to invest in exhibits, piped water from the city to the fair site, expanded subway service to bring in the customers...
...swelter, and don't, for goodness sake, invest in the new decorator-color shades. You need follow only those two rules, which are actually the one rule, forget about fashions, and you can't go too far wrong in your summer purchases...
...least partly Erpf's urge to educate at a profit that led him to invest in the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. after it dropped Collier's Magazine in 1956. In the five years since, Crowell-Collier has gone from losses to profits ($4,000,000 last year), and currently Erpf and his investing partners are adding new companies to Collier's at a two-a-year clip. Last week, for well under $1,000,000, Crowell-Collier bought New York's famed Bren-tano bookstore chain, which, like all conventional booksellers, has been hard...
businessmen must invest boldly if they are to keep ahead of Europe and Japan...
...Reds are by no means the only ones fed up with Ydigoras. Because of organized graft that flourishes like a fungus, the majority of Guatemala's business and professional community has long been bitterly disgusted. Corruption chokes the inflow of capital to a trickle. Anyone wanting to invest in Guatemala faces a maze of red tape that, in many cases, can be cut only by a mordida, or bribe...