Word: sells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formed Reynard Corp., with himself as president, his brother Barton and his lawyer, C. E. Kelley, as fellow directors, and $60,000 of his own cash and bonds as capital. President Fox thereupon contracted to sell Reynard Corp. his services as a cartoonist for $30,000 a year. Reynard Corp. in turn contracted with the Bell Syndicate to sell the Fox drawings for $1,500 a week, later raised to $2,000. With its profits Reynard Corp. built President Fox a house and studio at Roslyn, L. L, paid his life-insurance premiums. When suspicious Internal Revenue agents learned that...
Ethiopia (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935, et seq.). A typical Ben Smith achievement was his handling of the J. I. Case Co. stock when it tumbled during the Hoover Depression. He kept selling J. I. Case short until he had made huge gains, sloganizing nervous Wall Street at this time with respect to all stocks: "Sell 'em! Sell 'em! They're not worth anything!" Last week famed "Sell 'em Ben" Smith was close-mouthed as usual, but expansive Francis W. Rickett glowingly described his conference with General Lázaro Cárdenas, the "New Deal" President...
...Utah Power & Light Co. He sold electricity so suavely that in 1919 he was made managing director of National Electric Light Association, powerful utilities propaganda agency. In 1926 he stepped into the presidency of National Broadcasting Co., just formed, and helped to lift NBC into big money by selling its time to advertisers. Last year potent Mr. Aylesworth left NBC to sell national advertising space in Scripps-Howard Newspapers. He did the job so well that Roy W. Howard last week rewarded him with the publishership of the New York World-Telegram, top unit in the chain. Mr. Howard kept...
...given a sound whipping and confessed that it was her practice to cut people's lines and sell to them again the hooks which they bought from...
...just before they were to start. Later Mrs Harkness tried in vain to get him to accompany her on her first expedition into the wilds of Tibet. Since he has a contract with the London Zoo, two of his pandas are likely to go there, while he will probably sell the others in the U. S. Chicago's zookeepers were exultant last week over the possibility of getting a male cub for Mei-Mei. Exclaimed Assistant Director Robert Bean: "Oh, Boy! Wonderful...