Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tubby Abe Burrows, 38, says worriedly, "I don't have the right background for show business-I wasn't born in a trunk." Brooklyn-raised, Burrows majored in Latin and accounting, got his first job in Wall Street ("I went right up the ladder: runner, board boy, bond salesman-and then I was fired"). A script he wrote for Mimic Eddie Garr gave him a start in radio. Then he began satirizing Tin Pan Alley songs at private parties and convulsed Connoisseurs Groucho Marx and Danny Kaye with such numbers as The Girl With the Three Blue Eyes...
...statistician and financial analyst who had settled in Boston. In 1932, he organized a new Boston-type trust called Keystone Custodian Funds, Inc., which offered customers as conservative or as speculative a program as they wanted. If their main interest was income they could buy any of four bond funds, or two preferred-stock funds; if they wanted to gamble for quick profits they could choose from four speculative common-stock funds. Sholley's plan paid off; today Keystone, with $170 million in assets, is second only to M.I.T...
Gray, who had been made Under Secretary only two weeks earlier, was the President's second choice for Secretary. Harry Truman's first candidate, Curtis Calder, the $75,000 board chairman of Electric Bond & Share Co. and a Truman campaign contributor, turned the job down...
...Negroes," argued one of Cothrum's supporters, "but I don't blame them for looking at us with distrust in their eyes...of course we have to make sacrifices." The city of Jackson, Miss. opened a new $500,000 park for Negroes, then voted a $350,000 bond issue to build a civic auditorium in the park...
...mile paved strip, 150 miles of straggling, second-rate reads are Massachusetts' contribution to the east coast highway system. This month the State Legislature has a chance to hitch together the loose end of that Maine to Manhattan chain. In debating the authorization of a $100,000,000 bond issue, the legislators will also consider a provision for constructing a 90 mile toll turnpike across the state...