Used-bookstore chain shares spoils with employees (HAS TRIMS) By Cheryl Hall Dallas Morning News Half Price Books Records and Magazines answers the query: Can an. (Originated from enterprise on the cusp of socialism endure)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: October 8, 1993 | Copyright information 
    This 1972 brainchild of ``down-with-the-establishment'' thinking has grown into America's largest used-book chain by keeping rules to a bare minimum, encouraging offbeat personalities and sharing corporate spoils with all workers. 
    Founders Pat Anderson and Ken Gjemre never intended to get rich by paying cash for other folks' reading materials and reselling them for a profit. Ken, then 51, wanted a job that wouldn't interfere with his war-protest activities. Pat, at 40, was in the...

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