Word: acton
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...made his first play in the market-a $3.12 profit on Burlington Railroad common. He was 15 then, a board boy in Boston's Paine, Webber & Co. They told him to stay out of the bucket shops or quit his job. He quit. A towheaded greenhorn from West Acton, Mass., son of a poor Yankee farmer, he began beating the bucket shops at their own game until they refused to take his business. With $2,500 in his pocket, 21 years behind him, he lit out for Wall Street...