Word: sells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...briskly down the aisles with a sharp eye out for wasters. He works from 8 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. (his employes work from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m.) and he is invariably abed by 10 p. m. Unschooled, save in how to make and sell $3 & $4 shoes, he put his son, George W., to work instead of sending him to college, now leaves him in active charge as president of Endicott Johnson...
...handlers left 17,000 cattle and calves, 25,000 hogs, 10,000 sheep without service and the Chicago Livestock Exchange without a place to trade. Commission brokers and clerks fed & watered the stranded guests. The Exchange could do nothing for itself but suspend trading on the market where farmers sell (and brokers buy for packers and butchers) 13.1% of the cattle, 17.5% of the hogs, 5.3% of the calves, 10% of the sheep slaughtered in the U. S. under Federal inspection...
Both bull and bear forces were encouraged by the market action, the former contending that the slight sell-off largely reflected tax selling and realizing in a contracting volume of business, while the latter believe, as a result of the backswing from yesterday's recovery, that many traders are not convinced that the recent reaction has run its full course
...Katz changed all that. He hired a hustling young salesman named Teviah Sachs to sell more watches, and Sachs stirred up competition among the dealers...
...Katz last week decided to pay off Gruen's remaining $839,000 of Class A and B preferred by issuing new common stock. With a 1938 sales record that equals last year's, and with the market in the mood for new financing, he hopes to sell 150,000 shares at a price that will get the funded debt out of the way and put new working capital in the till. President Katz expects his firm to resume paying dividends next year...