The business was sold to a publicly traded clean shell to achieve rapid liquidity for the owners.

Immediately after the meal, when he was alone again, he set to work to examine Drayton’s papers, of which there lay quite a mass on the table near him and, leaning toward the lamp on his elbow, he weighed the meaning of each with a certain sideward sagacity of gaze, a sagacity that smiled in its self-sureness. Swiss Family Robinson- ....near the mouth of a creek, towards which all our geese and ducks betook themselves; and I, relying on their sagacity, followed in the same course.

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I used to say to our audiences: “It is difficult to get a man understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”