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...sounds like dialogue from Boiler Room, the new film featuring Ben Affleck as a Gen X stock-scam artist. But according to the feds, the scene is a real-life drama that threatens the 10 million investors expected to have online brokerage accounts by year's end and the millions more who use the Web to make investing decisions...
...Armanis, a couple of mil--and, oh yes, respectability. That's where J.T. Marlin, the brokerage firm, comes in. O.K., it isn't exactly J.P. Morgan. It is, in fact, as the title of writer-director Ben Younger's morally earnest yet very lively first feature has it, a Boiler Room...
...Boiler Room traces the steps of 19 year-old Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi), a college dropout who enters into a success-driven, overly aggressive stock brokerage firm, which happens to be one of the biggest scams in American history. J.T. Marlin brokerage firm recruits money-hungry, twenty-something, want-to-be brokers, who know nothing and want nothing but money...
...healthy enough to shovel piles of coal need only register at the Severn Valley Railway school, based in Bewdley, Worcestershire. In the introductory session, they learn safety guidelines and how a locomotive works. They also put in time on the footplate--where the fireman and driver stand, stoking the boiler, firing up the engine and managing the controls. In follow-up courses, groups of four students strive to acquire enough skill to drive the locomotive. This involves learning to clean, oil and light up the engine, shunt tracks, couple and uncouple cars--and brake, no easy task. John Sinclair...
...began their search. Three years later, after filling laboratory books with page after page of failed experiments, Baekeland finally developed a material that he dubbed in his notebooks "Bakelite." The key turned out to be his "bakelizer," a heavy iron vessel that was part pressure cooker and part basement boiler. With it, he was able to control the formaldehyde-phenol reaction with more finesse than had anyone before...