Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rough-ribbing Bawl Street Journal, annual parody published by the Bond Club of New York...
...hurdle was the sale of the first issue of World Bank bonds, $250 million worth. They were quickly oversubscribed, thanks to more than 1,600 securities dealers, the biggest bond-selling network ever formed. Most of the buyers were insurance companies and banks attracted by the 2¼% and 3% interest. A few minutes after trading in the bonds began on the New York Stock Exchange, they were bid up from the par value (100) at which they were floated. The 2¼s, maturing in 1957, hit a high of 102, the 25-year 3s a high...
That a veteran would cash in his bond only to pad his safe deposit account was regarded as highly doubtful by Richard M. Goodwin, assistant professor of Economics. He considered that where the payoff money came from was the determining factor in estimating a possible inflationary effect...
Better than Pepín Martín, but not what the crowd had come for, was Parrita. They call him "el Manolete de los pobres" (the poor man's Manolete). He is tall, a little heavyset, and looks like a Yale man learning to be a bond salesman. Parrita does one thing that only he and Manolete, who is the master, can do, and which may get them killed one afternoon. When he has the bull under complete control, Parrita will incite the bull to charge, then look up into the gallery as the bull passes him, depending...
...Benn Levy's British farce, Springtime for Henry. In 15 years of off-&-on touring, Henry has brought Edward Horton almost $1,000,000. This summer, for the fifth consecutive season, Edward has taken the old boy on the summer circuit with a supporting cast of three (Lilian Bond, Elaine Ellis and Matthew Smith) and the prospect of an average $1,800-a-week net to add to Horton's earnings...