Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1820s side-wheelers pushed past the Fort Smith sandbars. Before going to Texas, Sam Houston steamed up a tributary in Oklahoma to wed his Cherokee beauty. Henry Shreve, founder of Shreveport, in 1833 eliminated 1,500 navigational snags, but boatmen still grumbled that the river's "bottom is too near its top." By the 1870s, the snags, sandbars and erratic flow were stifling traffic along the Arkansas, and when rails spanned the river at the turn of the century, even the steamboats vanished...
Tendency to Dilute. Compared with the New York Stock Exchange or sedate European markets, the Tokyo exchange looks like a speculator's paradise. Volume is enormous (it hit a high of 574 million shares last week). Stocks are quoted at what seem to be rock-bottom prices; most shares are below the $1 level. The highest-priced stock, Sony, is selling at about $3.60 a share. But the opportunities are not as splendid as they may seem-mostly because of the tendency of Japanese corporations to dilute the value of their stock by issuing huge quantities of shares...
...only page of this parody which elicited a sustained laugh from me wasn't supposed to: it was Life's first full-page ad, boasting a two-inch deep, white-on-red Life logo, topped by the words, "A good ribbing?" Down at the bottom, it says, "Let it never be said that Life couldn't appreciate a good ribbing. If that were true, we would never have taken this ad. But now that you've had a few laughs, it's only fair that you also have the opportunity to enjoy the real McCoy...
...Coming down on US 427 from Nashville, the traveller passes a small sign saying "Leaving State of Tennessee." On the other side of the road is a mammoth white billboard. WELCOME TO HISTORIC ALABAMA, it says. ALABAMA, CRADLE OF THE CONFEDERACY AND HEART OF DIXIE WELCOMES YOU. At the bottom, in capital letters just as large as the rest, is LURLEEN WALLACE, GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA. It's hard to read LURLEEN, because right underneath it is GEORGE. The Alabama Highway Department has always been embarrassingly short of money, and it didn't want to bother painting out George's name...
...what he calls "glossy movies," such as You Only Live Twice and The Night of the Generals. He doesn't mind, partly because "evil people seem more interesting," partly because of the money he can make. This means a house on the Thames, with a boat at the bottom of the garden and plenty of elbowroom for his wife and two young daughters...