Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Social Council to send a commission to work on the problem. Callao's international operators speeded up their shipments to clear out big inventories. But domestic dealers were unworried. Said one: "If you're poor, you're hungry. Pichicato fixes that. If you're rich, you want an aphrodisiac. Pichicato fixes that, too. It's a sure cure for everything...
...Baptist Atlanta, the demand for the Mountain caught booksellers by surprise. Said Mrs. Georgia Lecken, manager of the book department in Rich's department store: "I would say that Protestants and Jews are buying it from us more than Catholics." But Georgia bookdealers do not see this as evidence of the South's yearning for the contemplative life. The booming sales are rather attributed to Protestant curiosity about behind-the-scenes Catholic activities-especially within a Trappist monastery...
...court foot-slogging shoppers as well as the carriage trade; this week its chaste ad in the New York Times offered gold brooches for $34 as well as a diamond pin at $6,650. In its store at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street are private buying rooms, where rich clients can inspect $200,000 necklaces at their leisure. But a housewife can walk in off the avenue and buy a $3 teaspoon or a 50? ashtray...
This combination of carriage and foot trade has made Tiffany's rich, and its stock a sapphire-blue chip. Tiffany's shareholders are a far more exclusive group than its clientele; outside the families of the founder and of the longtime partners, there are only about 200 stockholders, who now own close to 50% of the 12,000 seldom-traded shares. Last week Tiffany's got ready to let more of the public in. At their annual meeting, stockholders voted to split the stock (currently quoted in over-the-counter trading...
...stay there. Think of Trollope, at an upper-class school with holes in his trousers, because his father could not bring himself to dispense with a manservant. Ugh! Be a tramp or be a millionaire; it matters little which: what does matter is being a poor relation of the rich; and that is the very devil...