Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fracas started when the Erie Railroad proudly announced that underwriters Morgan, Stanley & Co. would handle a $14,000,000 Erie bond issue. Up rose peppery, dollar-minded Cyrus Stephen Eaton, boss of Cleveland's Otis & Co. and a Midwestern underwriter, who believes that New York financiers get far too much of the underwriting business. He demanded that ICC stop the sale, open the bidding to all comers...
...Junior Chamber of Commerce installed in its own hall of fame as "The" Young Men of 1942: a Marine private, a utility executive, a football coach, an Army flyer, a bacteriologist, a food merchant, a WLB director, a plane maker, a war bond salesman, and a State Governor. The Chamber's measuring stick: "conspicuous achievement...
Theodore Roosevelt Gamble, 33, supersalesman of war bonds. Operator of a chain of Oregon theaters (he managed five when he was 17), he ran the State's war savings staff in 1941, last year was made an assistant to Henry Morgenthau Jr. to run the nation's war bond staffs in the field...
Power of Deduction. In Des Moines, Sportswriter Leighton House, whose pay check carried on its stub the usual list of wartime deductions (for Social Security, hospital insurance, company pension, Community Chest, war bond, victory tax), made a natural mistake, tore up the check, tried to deposit the stub at his bank...
...client was pronounced dead and Jimmy collected his fee, $100. The aftermath: next day Jimmy was picked up on a drunk-and-disorderly charge. He posted a $10 bond, which he forfeited. His drunks usually follow each service to a client and Jimmy laments the fact that he almost never gets more than $90 cash out of a visit because of the bonds he forfeits...