Word: sells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next, Crosby learned that the Chase Manhattan Bank controlled 1,500,000 more shares of Pan Am. He invited a number of Chase officers down to the Bahamas to inspect his Paradise Island complex of hotels and a gambling ca sino. The bankers thereupon agreed to sell their Pan Am stock, then worth about $39 million, for a complex pack age of Resorts' notes and warrants...
...Truffaut's self-styled persona, who got banished to reform school in The 400 Blows and was spurned by his girl friend in Love at Twenty. Now, in Kisses, he is seen leaving the army after struggling to get a psychological discharge. "You can always sell ties," shrugs his commanding officer, adding hopefully: "I hope we never meet again." His girl friend's father fixes him up with a cushy job as a hotel night clerk, but Antoine gets canned when a private detective (Harry Max) makes him the dupe in a divorce case. Joining the detective...
...dealer and a descendant of a long line of Parsis (a sect that left Persia in about the 8th century and settled in India), Heeramaneck quickly found a ready market in America. From that day forward, his policy became, as his wife Alice puts it, to "buy five, sell four and keep the best for himself...
...currency crisis. In Paris, London and Zurich, the free-market price of gold climbed to all-time highs. It soared to $48.41 per oz. in Paris, compared with the official price of $35. Many people were lusting to buy gold, and practically no one was willing to sell. Frenchmen, historically distrustful of their own currency, defied monetary controls and smuggled suitcases full of francs into Switzerland and Belgium. There, they rushed to put their money into gold, Eurodollars and strong currencies-notably Swiss francs, Belgian francs and West German marks. Speculators and traders outside France were betting, in effect...
...Irishman named Paul Brennan, whom his cronies nickname "The Badger." He holds one of the MidAmerican Bible Co.'s better than average sales records, but as the film progresses, his luck turns ("I can't get any action . . . These people are croaking me"). He finally quits to sell roofing and siding. In the film's last scene, The Badger stands framed in the doorway of his Florida motel room, confessing failure to a fellow salesman and barely brushing past an emotional breakdown...