Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hello Sucker! Pin back your ears and get a load of the next week's news: Sex, murder, sin, off and on will make you grab those straps on the 8:20 subway tighter and tighter. We aim to thrill, flatter, and admire, so cluster around with the money wide, high, and handsome...
Such stipulations put great railroad executives to tussling like small boys. The eastern railroad situation became a melee where each one of the big participants tried to do at least three things at once?grab as many prosperous small railroads as possible, shove his opponent away from good roads towards poor ones, avoid kicking the I. C. C. (i.e., the public's interests). The railroads soon recognized that such promiscuous buffeting was unprofitable. For one thing, the turmoil made their customers aware that not yet were all great corporations "good corporations," like Judge Gary's U. S. Steel Corp...
...Representative Philip David Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson, to obtain additional drinking water for Los Angeles, flood control for California's sub-sea-level Imperial Valley, and electric power for cities as distant as Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Denver, San Diego. Arizona has doggedly called it a "power grab," a selfish California scheme to exploit Arizona's natural resource before Arizona herself is ready...
Seton, in terms which she is unable to understand, that life for him must be a holiday, that he does not want to grab for money. Only Linda shares his lazy, glamorous ambitions. In the last act, of course, it is Linda with whom Johnny Case prepares to go to Europe...
Railroad securities specialists have pondered many another example of freak financing. Wisconsin's Green Bay & Western R. R. (G. B. & W., unjustly parodied: "Grab Bag & Walk") issued Debenture B bonds which rank after the company's common stock. Authorized common stock of the Canadian National R. R. Co. totals $180,424,327.70. It is represented by one certificate, made out in the name of His Majesty, George V of England...