Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pennsylvania Railroad wreck at Woodbridge, N.J. in 1951 (84 dead), had got a window open before his coach splashed into the bay. From the dangling car some passengers crawled hand over hand up the luggage racks to take rescuing ropes and hands. But Snuffy Stirnweiss died at the bottom of the bay. So did Attorney Fisch. Dead, too, were Engineer Wilburn and Fireman Peter Andrew...
...never hit the bell; he twists it back, and you'll hit it every time." Over where the flatties (dishonest concessionaires) worked the barrel ball game, the toss of a ball into a barrel won a prize. But someone stood by to slip a bouncy false bottom into the barrel when the marks began to win too much. The hanky-panks (honest games) also made a profit; the slum (prizes) are never worth the price of a turn...
...bears is simply the high price of stocks. In spite of a second quarter pickup in earnings, the stocks in the Dow Jones industrials average are now selling at more than 18 times earnings, v. 7.5 times earnings in 1949, 10.2 in 1953, and 12 times earnings at the bottom of the decline last October. But few security analysts are willing to "argue with the tape." i.e., what the market has done in the face of falling profits. As the market has picked up steam, more and more of them have become bullish. Only a minority last winter foresaw...
...bottom of Buick's line, the new two-door Le Sabre will sell for $2,485 at the factory with taxes, freight, etc. added. v. $2,422 for the comparable though six inches shorter 1958 two-door Buick Special. The middle price Invicta and Electra lines will generally carry smaller increases over the discontinued 1958 Century and Super lines. The highest-price Electra 225 four-door hardtop will go for $3,895 v. $4,396 for the 1958 four-door Limited hardtop. Gone are all five 1958 models that Buick sold in the old $4,000-plus Roadmaster...
...Biggs was dispatched for scotch tape to cover openings in the pipe, while Mr. Flentrop gallantly placed his finger against the bottom to keep the wine from spilling...