Word: turnoveritis
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"Buy Now." With President Roosevelt impatient to get his last major code out of the way, General Johnson gave his off-hand opinion of Article VIII: "Economists say this invoice cost plus 10% is pyramiding, but I can't see that. We want to stop widespread price-cutting. There...
"I grew weary of being a clerk and counting nickels and dimes. I wanted to deal in millions like my two idols. I wanted to go into business for myself. I wanted to be my own boss and make millions." When Motorman Dodge died, Cromwell organized a company to finance...
In Vienna the Dollfuss Government pressed their advantage by charging that on the very morning of the protests in Berlin "15 uniformed Germans from Bavarian territory ambushed and killed an Austrian sentry near Kufstein on the Bavarian frontier." Two days later uniformed German Nazis crossed the Swiss frontier near Basle...
1) Bonds. The firm as a wholesaler of securities floats bond issues through syndicates. Because of its prestige it gets the pick of the business, the securities which are easiest to sell, of foreign governments (of England and Germany, for example), of great corporations without number. The margin of profit...
To force Russians into this new and less grandiose groove the Soviet Government and the Communist Party-both dominated by Joseph Stalin-have just taken drastic steps: 1) Under a new decree the mere fact that a Russian is a "worker" will no longer entitle him to a food card...