Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...into a klieg-lighted meeting of the Senate's Interior and Insular Affairs Committee two days later and confronted his accuser. "Senator Schoeppel's statement," said Chapman, ". . . can be dismissed as malicious and irresponsible . . . another instance of the use of the smear technique which has become the stock in trade of little men in high places." Its purpose, he declared, was a "last-ditch attempt to block statehood for Alaska" by suggesting that "my motives in advocating [it] are sinister and evil...
...When the President of Colombia decided last year to improve his country's scrawny live stock, the Tigers flew hundreds of U.S. bulls, rams, boars and stallions to Colombian breeders...
...Wall Street, the common stock of the Brooklyn Trust Co.,* founded 84 years ago, kicked up its heels like any speculative two-year-old last week. In six weeks the stock galloped from $139 to $228, on the rumor that Brooklyn Trust would soon be bought by a larger bank. Last week it jumped $1 7 in one day as the rumor turned out to be true. Brooklyn Trust announced it will merge with Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust...
...good for Australia, such prices were bad news to U.S. woolen mills, which can expect even higher prices this fall when they start bidding for fine-grade apparel wool (last week's auction was mostly limited to grade B stock). The U.S. will import more than 300 million Ibs. of wool this year; textile manufacturers fear that the skyrocketing wool prices will boost the cost of woolen cloth by about $1 a yard, tack an extra $5 on a man's good-quality suit by next spring. And last week the tight-squeezed wool market got ready...
...Warner), based vaguely on the immensely successful 1924 musical No, No, Nanette, sheds a Technicolor tear for the good old days of plus fours, prohibition and the stock-market crash. The story, about a Broadway show, employs nearly every musical-comedy cliche -from romantic misunderstandings between Doris Day and radio's Gordon MacRae to pratfalls by Comic Billy De Wolfe. Every quarter-hour or so there is a big production number...