Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Salomon Bros, handled the sale and purchase of 1,184,300 shares of Goodyear-the largest block ever traded on the Big Board. Jay H. Perry, 35, the partner in charge of block trading' first got a call from a big Goodyear holder, who wanted to sell. The seller was eager to get out quickly as usual, but refused to accept less than the going market price. Perry made a deal to pick up the stock, and further decided to buy all the other shares of Goodyear that he could find on the market. Reason: he wanted...
...tracks and 14 off-track betting centers, all of them crowded to capacity with eager bettors. The total on-and off-track handle for the Japan Derby, for example, was $12.7 million as compared with $2,383,972 for this year's Kentucky Derby. Complains one Japanese ticket seller: "A customer will stick his hand through the window to get his ticket and then won't be able to pull it out because so many people are pushing him from behind...
...November Action Coalition (NAC) will reimburse Harvey Crospy, a newspaper-seller in Harvard Square, for damages suffered during Wednesday night's riot...
AFTER Dianctics became a surprise best seller in 1950, Hubbard set up Dianctics centers in several cities. Determining the status of Dianctics and Scientology as either a religion or a business enterprise has been a perpetual problem for the U. S. Government. In the beginning, practitioners were called "ministers" and were or-damned to perform weddings and funerals. For a time, some Scientology centers did receive some tax-exemption, although none do now. However, there is a court case pending between Scientology and the Internal Revenue Service, over the issue of back taxes. It appears that Scientology will continue...
These karate chops to the corporate system are from a new book, Up the Organization, a breezy assault on business inefficiency clearly destined for the best seller list. The publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, has ordered a printing of 100,000, a run usually reserved for sex-saturated novels. The author, Robert Townsend, is an executive best known for driving Avis from a distant second in the car-rental field to wealth and prominence in only three years (1962 to 1965) as its chief executive officer. (He now is owner of a small newsletter, The Congressional Monitor.) His book is more...