Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether he likes them or not. The corruption in enforcement activities which caused a former Republican Prohibition Administrator to state that three-fourths of the dry agents were political ward heelers named by politicians without regard to Civil Service laws and that prohibition is the 'new political pork barrel,' I will ruthlessly stamp out. Such conditions can not and will not exist under any administration presided over...
Jean A. Lussier was the third human being to remain alive after accomplishing this courageous and stupid feat. First was Annie Upson Taylor in an oak barrel in 1901. Second was Bobbie Leach in a steel barrel in 1911. Sixteen years ago Jean Lussier had worked in the machine shop where Leach's barrel had been made. That was where he had received his inspiration...
...from a government bench leaped Deputy Punica Ratchitch, a nobody. Whipping out an automatic pistol, he leveled the blue-steel barrel at the leader of the opposition. "I'm going to shoot Raditch," he cried. "I'll shoot anyone who tries to stop me!" Instantly four ranking officials of the Croat Peasant Party rushed to fling themselves between the pistol and their leader. The secretary of the party stopped the assassin's first bullet. The vice president of the party, a popular Croatian author, took the second. The third and fourth were stopped with no less honor...
...some portly oil barons met in a Manhattan hotel room and the now-extinct Continental Trading Co. of Canada bought 33,333,333 bbls. of oil for $1.50 per barrel. The same day, the Continental Co. sold the same oil for $1.75 per barrel to the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, instantly netting some eight million dollars on paper.* The strange thing was that a third company, which guaranteed the Continental purchase, was jointly owned by Sinclair, who controlled Continental and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, which was buying from Continental...
...Robert W. Stewart, brisk, bulky board chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, know where Continental was buying $1.50 oil? He did. He also knew that the oil would cost him $1.75 from the same source, for reasons beyond his control. Since oil was commanding $2 per barrel elsewhere at the moment, he felt he was serving his Indiana Standard stockholders well in helping to guarantee to Sinclair, as cunningly inevitable middleman, a profit which Indiana Standard could equal in turn. "It was a good buy," he said...