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...pitcher with a bad arm). Sam Breadon sold baseball heroes as he also sold Pierce-Arrows, and the fertile Cardinal "farm system" which Vice President Branch Rickey built for him produced new-model heroes who won nine National League pennants. St. Louis thought of Sam as a skinflint horse-trader...
White-haired, wispy little Lisle Maxwell Sanders-who is often called "Mr. Kieran" for his famed look-alike-was born 49 years ago, the son of a Kentucky farmer and stock trader. When he was eight he went to work as an errand boy in the stockyards, and he gave up his schooling after a single semester of high school. In 1932 he joined the bank as a clerk, and has been there ever since...
...what if we can't get our profits out,'' says Spang, an enthusiastic foreign trader. "We'll get them eventually. We're not in business for five years or just ten years or even 50 years. We're in business from now on-indefinitely...
...pride and considerable effort on the part of TIME-LIFE International, which publishes and distributes TIME'S four overseas editions. For TIME'S circulation abroad is governed not only by reader interest and knowledge of English, but by a host of factors known to every U.S. foreign trader. Chief among them-because of the world-wide dollar shortage-are foreign government exchange controls and import restrictions...
...Goes Grain. Tall, aggressive John McDowell, Manitoba legislator-farmer who had campaigned for ending controls and reopening the Exchange, shouted down the rest with his stentorian "Ninety-five for May oats." (The ceiling had been 65? a bushel.) Across the pit a hopped-up trader with right fist up, knuckles outward, all fingers clenched (indicating no fractions) shrieked: "Sold!" A boy chalked the quotation on the board. In a few moments, barley opened at $1.25 (May delivery), up 32? from a 93? ceiling...