Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Simplicity and absolute fairness--simplicity for the H.A.A. and fairness in the long run for every ticket buyer--are the advantages that appear immediately with the plan of placing by classes and of equal priority for single and two-seat applications. Bottled in bond misogynists excluded, this second proposal on the Council's ballot should sweep the field...
...Bible. His paintings were blandly ignored by 19th Century Paris, but Doré managed to sell the whole lot of them to an English dealer for $300,000. They were more to the taste of Victorian London. Queen Victoria bought a few herself, and for 21 years a Bond Street gallery exhibited the rest. Shipped to the U.S., the paintings were valued at $1,000,000 and viewed by over a million people in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. Many wept over them; several clergymen felt inspired to preach on-the-spot sermons...
...they would soon bring a premium in the market. Since all banks were eager to get more than their allotments of bank-eligible securities, an individual like Hosford could borrow the money to buy as much as $1 million worth on no more collateral than $10,000, sell the bonds at a handsome profit as soon as they rose. For example, if a $100 par bond rose to $100⅜, the $10,000 could bring a profit...
Born in 1886 on a New York farm, Hosford became a Western Union messenger at 12, then worked on Great Lakes freighters for seven years. At 22, he became a $100-a-month bond salesman in Cleveland; in 1916 he went into investment banking for himself. He made his first killing in 1921, buying up depressed Liberty Bonds. Traders first began to notice him when he became a big buyer of Canadian bonds. In the bull market of the '20s, he loaded up heavily with Woolworth and Montgomery Ward when they were low-priced, made millions when they spiraled...
Free for 30 days on a $20,000 bond, while his attorneys filed motions for a new trial, Soviet Agent Eisler had a curious comment on justice. Said he: "It was a fair trial on a very unfair indictment...