Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Willie had quite a few ideas on morality. When asked about the "mob," he shot back: "People are mobs that makes 6% more on the dollar than anybody else does," and added: "Jeez, everything is a racket today. The stock market is a racket. Why not make everything legal?" The audience laughed and Willie was pleased...
...most young wrigglers, quickly learns to navigate the muck. With great credit to his reputation, he manages to hush a scandal that might have brought the cabinet down. Soon after, he is in the thick of a provincial election, passing out bribes as easily as breathing. In all this stock jobbery, the newly invented telegraph serves the political and financial turn of the men in power so often that Stendhal sees the instrument as a symbol of corruption...
...great stock of funds makes the Ford Foundation the wealthiest of the nation's philanthropic organizations; it surpasses both the Carnogie and Rockefeller Foundations...
...addition to his reputation as a first-class arnica and iodine man, Fadden is a highly engaging raconteur. During his travels around professional circuits, he has rubbed elbows of great and near-great athletes (it was Fadden who treated Ted Williams' injury last summer). He has a ready stock of stories which he can relate much in the manner of Ring Lardner's rookie. Not only that, but there was not one major injury during the past football season. Good man to have around...
...growth was due to the booming television industry; Standard Coil supplies parts for 40% of all TV sets produced in the U.S. But even more was due to the resourceful financing and engineering brains of President Swanson, 43, who with two partners owns 75% of the company's stock. A onetime Indiana farm boy, Swanson married at 18, had to go to work instead of college. He moved from one Chicago radio manufacturer to another, studied electronics at night school. By the time he was 23, he was a top design engineer for Chicago's Wells-Gardner...