Word: investor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite their eagerness to get a piece of Unilever, even some of Wall Street's professionals had only an imperfect notion of what they were buying into. And to the ordinary investor Unilever presents an even hazier image. Few U.S. housewives realize that they are fattening Unilever's coffers when they bring home Lux, Lifebuoy. Handy Andy, Rinso or Surf soaps, Imperial or Good Luck margarines, Spry shortening, Pepsodent toothpaste, Lipton's tea and soups, or Wishbone salad dressing...
...World. Josephine Paul was born in Iowa and raised in Brooklyn, the daughter of a well-heeled builder and real estate investor. Even as a young woman, she showed sharp business sense, and with her sister, she ran a successful greeting card company. After her marriage to Charles Ulrick Bay, a multimillionaire stockbroker and investor, she took an active interest in his business affairs. In 1946, Bay was named Ambassador to Norway (he was the son of Norwegian immigrants), and for the next seven years the Bays hobnobbed with world celebrities in and out of Oslo...
Polling double the vote of his Democratic opponent, Real Estate Investor Lew Davis, 54, became the first successful G.O.P. candidate for mayor in Tucson since...
...four centuries since the German banking house of Fugger began to pay an astrologer to predict financial trends, economic forecasting has become so universal a pastime that today's conscientious investor or businessman is hard put to it to know whose voice to heed. One voice that is heeded is that of the National Association of Business Economists, whose membership is drawn from the top economists employed by U.S. private industry. A year ago, the N.A.B.E. produced a forecast of the 1961 business rebound that proved to be dead right. Last week, meeting in Chicago's Edgewater Beach...
Nuzzling Birds. New York Times Financial Columnist Burton Crane has put out an album called Stock Market Profits for the Sophisticated Investor, presumably for the investor who is not sophisticated enough to read Crane's columns or books. Occupying six twelve-inch sides, it is as long as many complete operas, is salted with Crane's forthright advice: "Get the hell out at the first sign of high water...