A shrewd, genial, supersalesman is Archie Moulton Andrews, board chairman and largest stockholder of Hupp Motor Car Corp. In 1932 when this arch-promoter was backing the sale of securities in packages of one share each in 25 or 50 companies, he confidently expected his merchandise to become the "Ford of the American investment business." When he was pushing his Elektrolite cigaret lighter, he used to rub his hands over the 120,000,000 U. S. birthdays as prospective gift sales, crowing: "Give me 5% of them and I'll make $10,000,000." A sworn foe of Wall...
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