Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aragonese peasant whose wife claimed kinship to a tattered strain of impoverished Spanish nobility, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was born in the bedraggled, hard-bitten village of Fuendetodos, near Saragossa, in 1746. He grew into barrel-chested manhood, fighting ruffians and bulls with equal recklessness and gusto. Brawling and wenching his way to Rome, he studied there the shimmering rococo canvases of Tiepolo and Francesco de Guardi, returned to Madrid to work his way up as court painter to Spain's dissolute Charles...
...almost impossible to believe that Peroy won his first fencing prize in 1896. Short, with sparkling eyes, a greying military mustache, slight French accent and a barrel chest, he resembles nothing so much as a bamtam cock. Nearly every day, shortly ater luncheon, he pulls on his huge gloves, tips his mask over his face and begins to fence, not stopping till five o'clock or later...
Said Pilot McDonough: "I keep wondering what the hell would have happened if I could have fired a pistol back over the tail. At that speed* would the bullet have rolled out of the barrel and fallen straight down-or what...
...gold ($2,000,000,000), the marketable stocks ($1,010,000,000) and bonds ($70,000,000) have been steadily turned into bank balances, the bank balances into payments for munitions. Late last fall it was clear that the British were getting close to the bottom of the barrel (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq.). Now spending at the rate of almost $400,000,000 a week, the British will not have enough cash at this year's end to make their 1942 purchasing commitments...
...very bottom of the barrel lies their least liquid sediment: some $850,000,000 (book value) of "investments in controlled enterprises," the unlisted securities of privately owned corporations. Such companies include giants like rayon-making American Viscose, British-American Tobacco's Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (Kool, Raleigh). They also include many smaller fry: British Ropes, Ltd., J. & J. Cash, Inc. (woven names), Crosse & Blackwell (jam, etc.), Jaeger Co. (knit goods), Oxford University Press, Yardley & Co. (cosmetics), many another. Not listed on U. S. exchanges, stock in such companies is "unseasoned," would probably find an uncertain market...