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...Orleans last week, cotton brokers were stirred by news of the biggest single transaction since Speculator Tom Jordan dumped his huge futures holdings (TIME, Oct. 28). In a spot cash deal, a 73-year-old Arkansas farmer and cotton trader, C. R. McKennon, sold his entire holdings of 6,319 bales for close...
...rickety maze of companies (45) he had. He wanted to turn Cord, the bad holding company, into a good operating company. One of his first moves was to drop the Cord name, substitute Aviation and Transportation Corp. for the top holding company. Then, like a horse trader, he sold, bartered and junked the money-losing companies in ATCO and AVCO and a holding company of lower degree, Aviation Manufacturing Corp. (AMCO...
Later, an Argentine polo pony trader arrived in the U.S. with a string of 24 mounts. He expected them to go like hotcakes, at $3,000 to $5,000 apiece, as they did before the war. By last week, he had not sold one. U.S. poloists had learned to appreciate the home-grown Texas cow-pony, which can run like the wind for 100 yards, stop on a dime and take a lot of punishment...
Died. Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis, sixtyish, onetime physical-culturist who dreamed of writing a big-seller and did it by chronicling in Trader Horn the fabulous and maybe apocryphal ivory-trading, gorilla-hunting adventures of chance-visitor Alfred Aloysius Smith; of a heart ailment; in Port Alfred, Cape Province, South Africa...
...face of these hazards, Durant manages to maintain a quiet reserve that is the mark of the successful down-east trader. Across the desk he is deliberate and exceedingly mild in mien and expression. This softness of speech must not be taken for timidity, as a generation of Crimson candidates will testify. But Durant is no legendary tyro out of the Copey mold. Rather he is a businessman-engineer working at the earth-bound business of maintaining Harvard's wealth of real facilities...