Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble is not to get the Cunarder built," he declared, "but to get the com-pany to believe that when she is built she can be run with some chance of paying her way. There would be no difficulty in getting money for the building if there were any prospect of getting the interest repaid and the loans refunded...
Thus a glib young man named Robert H. Sommer explained last week to a New York Deputy Attorney General how a card index was helpful to him in selling stock in Town Topics, "society" gossip sheet. The "prospect" cards, 200 of them, were taken in a raid on the Town Topics offices by State agents who also raided Tatler & American Sketch to investigate its stock-selling tactics (TIME, Dec. 21). Samples...
...card it was noted that the prospect had received a "slam by Tatler." Within a fortnight after the appearance of the "slam" in the other magazine, Town Topics sold the subject 15 shares at $110 each...
...Tatler & American Sketch last week denied it had given a debutante a rating of "E-Z" after her father had declined to buy Tatler stock. It also denied that Tatler stock salesmen, after "selling" a new prospect, turn the information over to solicitors for pseudo press associations (TIME, Dec. 21). Investigation shows, however, that in at least one case a Town Topics salesman opened the door to a procession of other solicitors, at the end of which came the man from Tatler...
Clifton, Paterson and Passaic, N. J. have not paid their share of taxes to County and State. North Bergen, N. J. was utterly insolvent with a receivership in prospect if the State would pass an enabling...