Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Italy with British coal instead of German, and Italy must somehow get foreign coal if her industry is not to stop. Normally she imports four-fifths of her coal. German coal could be routed via Switzerland to Italy by rail, but the hard-pressed Reich cannot spare enough rolling stock for that. Last week Dictator Mussolini began warming up again the stale Rome-Berlin Axis...
...Franklin Roosevelt "the American Hansson." Actually the two are not much alike. Franklin Roosevelt is a liberal aristocrat, estate-owner, stamp-collector, smile-flasher, compleat angler, statesman both in profession and profile. Premier Hansson looks like a cross between a pixie and a professional wrestler. He is of humble stock, self-educated, solemn. He lives in a tiny five-room house, and hangs around bowling alleys in his spare time. One similarity: U. S. citizens refer to their President either lovingly as Franklin D., or as that Roosevelt; Swedes either speak of good Per Albin or use certain short Nordic...
Last week Stravinsky, guest-conducting Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony, gave Chicagoans a taste of his own music: The Card Party, The Firebird. The audience loved it, but critics found that, since the Sacre, Composer Stravinsky had come a long way downhill...
...showed how Charlie Mitchell rigged the market in Anaconda; how Rudolph Spreckels made over$14,000,000 in the Kolster Radio pool while suckers lost their shirts; how Dick Whitney, pegging a German bond issue, waited till the Morgans were out before he "pulled the plug"; how the Stock Exchange of 1929 really worked-the New Deal was able to write its own ticket for Federal regulation of security issues and trading...
Proxies for American Tobacco's annual stockholders' meeting next month carried the news that Lewis D. ("Gadfly") Gilbert was out for trouble again. Specializing in heckling the management of the 60-odd companies a tiny bit of whose stock he holds, Capitalist Gilbert was all set with a resolution drastically cutting the bonuses paid to President George Washington Hill and his high-powered vice presidents...