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Word: whithin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Persuading Papa. Eddy Gilbert (né Ginsberg) was a plunger. At 27, angered by his father's refusal to make him a director of the family-controlled Empire Millwork Corp., he quit the company and started his own hardwood flooring business. Whithin four years he could point to annual sales of $250,000, and persuaded papa to buy him out for 20,000 shares of Empire stock. Then, armed with his stake and an Empire directorship, he began to move in on E.L. Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Finance: Bonaparte's Retreat | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

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