Word: bonanza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other news from some of the Caribbean bases was not so good. Expecting a U.S. bonanza, native laborers in Trinidad recently struck when they got little more than local wage scales for work on U.S. air and naval bases there. The strike was settled, but without improving the ill feeling between natives, British residents and U.S. personnel. High-ranking U.S. Army officers who toured the southern bases last fortnight felt that they were quietly snubbed by the British Governors of Trinidad and British Guiana. In Trinidad and elsewhere in the Caribbean, cooperation between U.S. and local authorities is negligible...
Riley's big chance came when the Japanese took Shanghai in 1937. The New Order in East Asia has been the biggest bonanza for criminals that China has ever seen. With stringent wartime blue laws at home, every out-of-work prostitute, gambler and dope peddler in Japan headed for Occupied China, where their enterprises found Army protection.* Local talent, too, found the Japanese Army and the puppet Government amenable to bribes...
...regular members, but 8,113 carpenters had to be hired. Army men said that about 55% of them were roughwork carpenters, 35% were not fully qualified. "Sears Roebuck carpenters" arrived at the site with $5 worth of new tools and a desire to cut in on the Government bonanza. But the unions were the boys who really cut in. Their "take" in initiation fees and dues, Army men estimated, was at least...
Whether Frank Riggio's idea, Y. & R.'s ads or George Hill's inspired hunch-playing was responsible, Pall Mall had struck a bonanza. It sold 4,000,000,000 cigarets in 1940, seven times its former volume. Last week Profit-Maker Hill, pleased as spiked punch, translated this into dollars for his stockholders. To American Tobacco's 1940 net of $28,311,783 (up 7% over 1939), American Cigarette and Cigar had contributed $1,458,107 (up 276% over 1939). The subsidiary's Pall Mall division had changed a $780,902 loss...
...weary veteran of U. S. railroading is the bankrupt, 108-year-old Erie. In her gilded years she fell in with bad company-flamboyant Jim Fisk, piratical Jay Gould, pious Daniel Drew. Together they manipulated her back and forth from bonanza to bankruptcy, got her known as the "Scarlet Lady of Wall Street." Exhausted, the Erie had collapsed three times by 1895. Then she reformed. Under Van Sweringen control, she became a respectably operated road. But her capital structure never really recovered from Jay Gould's attentions, and she never again paid a dividend on the common...