Word: bagless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most famed was one he drew in 1902 after hearing that Teddy Roosevelt, at the end of a bagless hunting trip in Mississippi, had refused to shoot a scrawny cub dragged into camp on a rope by two sympathetic Negroes. The "Teddy bear" he drew (see cut) passed into the national folklore, appeared in prose, verse, stage dialogue, political debate, persists as the toy bear which supplanted wooly lambs in the arms of children...
...same squeeze play occurred in the last war, but that time Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch pulled a shrewd counter-squeeze. After he persuaded the U.S. Treasury to stop shipping silver (to bolster India's currency), burlap prices came down in a hurry. Burlap importers-and their bagless customers-wish they had another Baruch...
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