Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Problem: Costs. It was the sixth time that the News, which began life in 1876 as a four-page daily, has changed ownership. Last week's seller was John Shively Knight. 64. who added the News to his chain* in 1944, paying $2,000,000 in cash and assuming an outstanding debt of $6,600,000. Last week's buyer. Field, has been pining after the News since the wealthy Trib picked up Chicago's other evening paper, Hearst's money-losing American...
...Wisconsin, charges he lost $214,156 when he sold his Kohler Co. stock to company in 1953, says that Kohler Co. gave "untrue statements" about its real value; he is suing for return of money. But Uncle Herbert Kohler, boss of company, says Walter was just an unknowing seller, should have asked the right questions before he sold...
Millions for Research. The breakthrough at Macy's is the result of a major advance at venerable N.C.R., the world's No. 1 seller of cash registers and No. 2 maker of office equipment (after International Business Machines). N.C.R. is hustling to expand beyond mechanical to electronic machines. In this fiercely competitive field, N.C.R. started long after IBM, Remington Rand or Burroughs; its real push began only in 1952, when N.C.R. bought the small Computer Research Corp. of Hawthorne, Calif. (TIME, Oct. 6, 1952). Since then it has moved fast, boosted its research and development bill from...
...this book last September and embodied the data in his Soc Sci 134 lectures. This year Galbraith is interested in the theory of organization, is exploring the subject in his Soc Sci lectures, and may eventually come up with another book, but "a technical book, definitely not a best-seller...
Once upon a time there were two Kerrs, Mama Kerr and Papa Kerr. (There were a lot of baby Kerrs too, but you can read all about them in Mama's best-seller.) One day, Mama Kerr said to Papa Kerr, "Walter, let us write a musical. A musical with lots of sentiment and lots of laughs and lots and lots of old-fashioned goodness...