Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Partnership. Distinctly the student in appearance, President Martin is short, ruddy, wears spectacles and double-breasted suits, talks with quiet assurance. No one is more aware than he that he faces a tough job. Last week he remarked: "The honeymoon is over. Now I'll have to produce." First items on his agenda are five, the same five that head the list of William O. Douglas. Both Douglas and Martin say they are 100% in agreement. Soon to be broached to the Exchange, therefore, are: 1) a depository for customers' funds now kept helter-skelter in brokerage houses...
...look, few to buy. Luggage, he decided, was too expensive to sell readily. He wondered why no one had thought of renting it. Visiting railroad and airline offices, steamship and travel bureaus, he planted an idea: if vacationists could skimp on luggage, perhaps they would splurge on trips. In partnership with 37-year-old Austin Wyman, who put up the money, he opened, as a side line, the first U. S. luggage renting service, distributed folders headlined "Rent Your Luggage," urged Chicago vacationists to ask travel agencies about the service. To all agencies he offered a 25% commission...
...Charlotte, N. C. Observer, marched into the office of Publisher Curtis Boyd Johnson. He announced that one of his linotype operators, 36-year-old Buford Leonard Green, had a mechanized linotype invention that worked. Three months later, convinced that Green had something worth backing, Publisher Johnson entered a partnership with...
...bunch, a near-genius creation of canniness, stupidity, bombast and lust, is the half-articulate Rumanian Jew, Grain-broker Henri Leon, whose "deposit technique" marks the perfect blend of speculation and double-crossing. When Leon has a love affair with a smart Hollywood adventuress, he incorporates the partnership as the Margaret Trust, of which he holds 49% of the shares...
...Sleep in Peace, the partners in a Yorkshire textile mill, Alfred Armistead, liberal Conservative, and Henry Hinch-liffe, conservative Liberal, are posed as two representative, conflicting types of Victorian capitalism. Their children are involved in the conflict that dissolves the partnership, are nevertheless drawn together in their common rebellion against their parents. Author Bentley makes this two-way conflict the most interesting part of her story, which otherwise runs so true to form it resembles the competent playing of a piece of music that everybody knows. Out of family conflicts, the War, Depression, the two families produce one unhappy intermarriage...