Word: investors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history, the ancient and slightly moribund textile-making firm of Courtaulds, Ltd. barely held off giant Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. last year by promising to mend its ways. The world's second biggest synthetic fiber manufacturer (after Du Pont), Courtaulds pledged an end to the secretive, damn-the-investor attitude prevailing since the firm was founded 147 years ago by Huguenot refugees named Courtauld. It also predicted that fiscal 1963 would bring a 30% rise in pre-tax earnings to $65 million...
...week was vigorously fearful that it might soon be running out of fools as well. What alarmed producers, agents and theater owners was the New York Times, which had just published its annual article proclaiming the Broadway season a historic disaster. During the 1962-63 season, said the Times, "investors lost $5.574,944." Faced with such figures, could Broadway ever find another investor...
...than did Quinim Pholsena.'' Hardworking, dedicated and devious. Quinim lacked the customary Laotian charm and grew up consumed by bitterness and envy. Unlike most other Laotian politicians, he did not belong to a rich or princely family. He made a lot of money as a merchant and investor, but in politics he was always a man of the left; though officially a member of Souvanna Phouma's neutralist party, his line was usually indistinguishable from that of the Communist Pathet Lao. Quinim was widely blamed for splitting the neutralist ranks and for fostering the resentments and dissensions...
...most of these ventures. U.S. hotel chains invest little money themselves. Except for recent deals in The Netherlands and Rome, Hilton owns no share at all. Local governments provide funds or loans and tax incentives to investor syndicates that raise capital from such sources as Swiss banks, cautious pension funds, Texas oilmen and international millionaires. Investor appetites are whetted by such success stories as Intercontinental's Phoenicia Hotel in Beirut, which cost $9,500,000 when it went in business last year and is now valued at $20 million...
...reasonable assumption that I will get the Bennett St. MTA Yards," Samuel P. Coffman, Boston banker and investor, told the CRIMSON yesterday...