Word: put
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...November, U. S. railroads had scrapped 54,000 cars, put about as many new ones in service. Meanwhile, the equipment makers, tired of waiting, took new business offered by other sectors of defense. American Car & Foundry filled part of its echoing, long-empty car sheds with $21,500,000 in tank orders, which (along with nearly $30,000,000 of shells, armor plate, etc.) almost put its common back into the black. American Locomotive got $38,000,000 of Army orders, paid off $5 a share on preferred arrears. Even Pullman, ever faithful to the rails, took on some arms...
...years steel's most spectacular moneymaker was cigar-chewing Ernest Weir, whose modern mills put competition back into the steel business. In 1940 he yielded his news value to others. Mr. Weir is a salesman, and in 1940's market all the salesmen went fishing. It was a productionman's show. Shrewd Old Dealer Eugene Grace opened his mouth just wide enough to lap up the cream of the business. He also took the lead in cooperating with the New Deal's exhortations to expand: $100,000,000 worth, half of which was Government money...
...balance sheet listed assets of $1,914,000. Word got around that he was a financial wizard. His friends in the Juristic Society gave him their money to invest and sent others to him. His church affiliations were helpful too; several ministers advised members of their flock to put their worldly goods in his care. All in all, he acquired over 160 clients, among them such distinguished old Philadelphia names as Biddle. Chew, Bullitt, Gest, Truitt, Pilling. During the parlous days of New Deals I and II they were gratified at their lucrative returns from "Honest Bob" Boltz...
...operative, ICC's plan must first be approved in Federal court, then be ratified by 67% of the company's security holders. Last week Judge Robert N. Wilkin gave tacit approval to the plan, by overruling objections to it. Tired of fighting, C. & O. indicated it would put no obstacle in the way of ratification...
...Put the little creature down, he said. Let us not be cruel to the innocent creations of Almighty God. If it is not poison and grows no larger than a mouse and does not travel in great numbers and has no memory to speak of, let the timid little thing return to the earth...