Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mediator had been concerned by B-G's recent threat to U.N. Truce Supervisor Major General Burns to do something drastic if Jordan misbehaved. B-G had shaken a Bible under Burns's nose and quoted Deuteronomy to him: "Thou shall not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small; thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, a great and a small; a perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure...
Wrong Bug. As chief investigator of a super-secret intelligence unit of the Chicago police dubbed Scotland Yard, Joe Morris had, since 1952, been painstakingly gathering data on Chicago gangsters and their political friends. His tactic: pick up a hoodlum, e.g., Sam ("Golf Bag") Hunt,* grill him, set him free, tail him. With the help of surveillances, wire taps and bugs, Morris filled five filing cabinets with intelligence on 600 "syndicate" mobsters, 8,000 lesser hoodlums, and a disturbing number of his fellow cops and assorted politicians...
...Capone bodyguard, Sam was the first to discard the accustomed violin case, carried his Tommy gun in a golf bag...
...Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the giddy fluctuations in onion prices seemed very suspicious to the Commodity Exchange Authority. Beginning at $2.75 per 50-lb. bag last August, the price skidded t010? by mid-March. Last week the Commodity Exchange Authority formally charged that it had sniffed out-as it suspected-a price manipulation plot...
...growers were tricked shortly afterwards, when Kosuga and Siegel switched to a short position in the market, CEA charged. In February they held short positions for 1,148 car lots, and the price was down to $1.02 a bag. They were engaging in "a conspiracy to depress the prices in order to cover their short position," in the March onion futures. To grease the price skids, they allegedly shipped some of their aging onions out of Chicago, had them culled, resorted and repacked, and then sent back to Chicago #151;to make it appear as though large quantities...