Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes a single piece of music available in several mutations: Schubert's "Trout" Quintet can be bought without piano, violin, viola, cello or bass. The company's bestseller (20,000 copies) is a household nightmare: Rhythm Section Backgrounds for budding vocalists and various instruments. The best classical seller is an album of Mozart quartets for either violin or flute. Recently, for those who would like something grander than Sing Along with Mitch, Music Minus One began recording famous operas-minus singers...
...buyer's risk is only slightly greater than the seller's, who, before bringing his yearling to market, has invested anywhere from $3,000 to $15,000. While many horses go for impressive sums-up to $130,000-many more bring $5,000 or less...
...Horseflesh. Bringing buyer and seller together is the job of white-haired Humphrey Finney, 58. who rules Fasig-Tipton Co., an $8,500,000-a-year horse-trading enterprise that extends from Saratoga to stud farms in England. France, Australia and South America. After 24 years as an auctioneer and "pitchman." British-born Finney knows as much as any man about the cash value of good horseflesh-and about the strange habits of the bidder. Finney scornfully tolerates parvenus whose extravagantly high offers make no horse sense, pointedly admonishes bidders when he thinks the offers...
...Britain, Ford's fast-rising subsidiary, Ford Motor Co. Ltd., has become the No. 2 car seller, after British Motor Corp. (which makes Morris, Austin, M.G.). G.M.'s Vauxhall Motors Ltd. is No. 3. From their British bases, both sell widely within the Commonwealth. ¶ In West Germany, G.M.'s Opel and Ford's Taunus are outpaced only by Volkswagen, which, however, is far out front. The two subsidiaries now have the entire six-nation European Common Market open to them...
...cutting firms and scores of sawyers, brokers and retailers, pass 80% of the polished diamonds produced in the world each year. The New York diamond market centering on a single West 47th block serves 99% of the nation's retail jewelers and is the world's largest seller of "sizes," i.e., diamonds of more than 1½ carats...