Word: options
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each man kept his musket, powder horn, wooden canteen, knapsack and uniform. In his pocket were four months' wages in promissory notes, marketable at only two shillings to the pound. Veterans who thought this a meager reward (as most did) had the option of staying in camp until their enlistments were up. But, as Washington had shrewdly guessed, what every one wanted most was to get home...
Attack. Goldwyn sent his scouts into Reno, where McNeil-Naify control the five theaters. But McNeil-Naify easily outmaneuvered them. When the Goldwyn agents tried to get an option on the State Auditorium, officials refused because it was a public building and could not be rented to private enterprise for profit. Then the Goldwyn men leased the El Patio ballroom, alongside the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. Reno's Fire Chief, George M. Twaddle, regretfully informed them that their portable projection booth did not conform to Reno's fire laws. They tried to rent a parking lot, planning...
...Frazer and associates, said the statement, had bought 265,000 shares of Graham-Paige Motors Corp. from Founder Joseph B. Graham at $2 per share. The same purchasers have an option to buy on or before Sept. 7 an additional 265,000 shares at the same price, also from Founder Graham...
...corporation gave Frazer an option-good for five years-under which he may buy up to 300,000 shares of Graham-Paige stock from the company's treasury at $3.50 per share...
Because of his option, Frazer has an incentive to build greater future value into Graham-Paige. But he also has a more personal urge to succeed. Only last September, Frazer left Willys-Overland after falling out with Ward Canaday, Willys' board chairman. Into the vacated post went Charles Sorensen from Ford, at $52,000 a year (TIME, June...