Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stuff. . . . Bernie Lange, who also spent a day or so under the hoary grease, missed the chance of a life time Monday by being the little man who wasn't there when called to lead the entire company back from drill. The episode developed into a triple play. Keith Bond was the next guy called, but his voice cracked and he gave way to the astute George Funk, who is definitely the executive type...
Whatever the facts, one thing was certain: the original move was economically illiterate. If Mr. Rockefeller sells stock to buy Government bonds, a lot of other potential bond-buyers would be using their own capital or income to buy his stock. To the extent that the new stockholders might otherwise have bought bonds instead, the U.S. Government would exchange hundreds of small bondholders for one big one, while the fight against inflation would, if anything, suffer a setback...
Jack Pots. In Ogden, Utah, Victor Adams dipped his hand into a box to draw the winner of a $1,000 war-bond lottery, drew his own name. In Gordon, Wis., Autoist Roy Guest saw a hawk overhead with a partridge in its mouth, honked his horn twice, startled the hawk into dropping the bird in front...
...Professor Slichter assumed that half of U.S. individuals' war bond hoard would be "warm," half "cold," suggested in passing that the "cold" part was "a challenge particularly to the building-construction industry...
...Manhattan, dark, scowling Utili-tycoon Samuel Wilson Murphy, president of huge Electric Bond & Share Co., wound up his annual stockholders' meeting last week with a solid challenge to partisans of Federal power. His down-to-earth suggestion: private capital would be glad to buy up publicly-owned utility plants (now one-eighth of the industry), thereby giving the Government 1) billions for debt retirement; 2) annual millions in tax revenues...