Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...them, studying lightning flashes by reclining on a Los Angeles curbstone in a pouring rain, was rushed to headquarters by suspicious police. Famed paleontologists like Barnum Brown of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and Chester Stock of California Institute of Technology were called in for advice. A herd of pet iguanas and a baby alligator wriggled over the Burbank lot, while animators studied their lizardy movements. By the time a complete cast had been rounded up for the Rite, the Disney zoo contained eusthenopterons, brachiosaurs, brontosaurs, plesiosaurs, mesosaurs, diplodocuses, triceratopses, pterodactyls, trachodons, struthiomimuses, stegosaurs, archaeopteryxes, pteranodons, tyrannosaurs...
...remote control." He used to sell insurance but has given that up almost entirely, still makes money from a special loose-leaf notebook which he invented for insurance salesmen. One day in 1935, oppressed by business cares and seeking distraction, he dropped into the museum, listened to a stock lecturer. When it was over he found that his cares had fallen away. He went to about 100 more lectures, began to bone up on geology, anthropology, mineralogy, meteoritics, zoology, paleontology...
...that unity he would have to do a tall job of convincing. Somehow he must convince angry, embittered businessmen that they needn't sell their businesses and move to Canada (or wherever); that the Federal Reserve Index meant what it said -the U. S. stock was up. He must convince millions who had voted against him that he held no grudge against the crusade that had tried to topple...
...Among inmates of Sing Sing who were given "special privilege" to listen to radioed election returns: Tammany Hall's James J. Hines; New York Stock Exchange's Richard Whitney...
...turn a dollar or two. Object of his attention was the San Antonio subsidiary of the ill-fated United Light & Power system, which Eaton once controlled. Biggest single interest in United now is the Mellon family's Koppers Co., which owns 28.4% of the Class B voting stock (which would be practically wiped out in United's proposed recapitalization...