Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boshell thought some value could be recovered for all stockholders. But he was also convinced that nobody knew the real value of Standard's maze of interlocking holdings. He decided that he could not tell until he unscrambled it at the bottom...
...bottom was a mystery. One of the companies in Standard's system, Pittsburgh Railways, had been bankrupt since 1938, but a 6% return was regularly being paid to stockholders of its 54 subsidiaries. Boshell found that the money was coming from another Standard-controlled company, Duquesne Light, and this was draining away $1,000,000 a year which might otherwise go to Standard stockholders. Boshell set out to reorganize Pittsburgh Railways, but had to unscramble 45 separate security issues and fight off Pittsburgh stockholders who went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to block...
...have our visions and our qualms, to be sure, but those of you who are reluctant to give anything at all because of them, be reassured. For there are three lines allotted for write-in purposes and there is nothing to prevent you from using them. Moreover, on the bottom of the Combined Charities brochure, passed out several days ago, there is a list of more conventional charities to consult before filling out your card...
...ambulance with wounded. Into the top shelf went a Frenchman with face wounds; into the middle shelf, a Vietnamese whose left foot had been blown off by a mine. Around his head lay grimy salvage from his pockets: a wallet, a watch, a rosary, bits of candy. Into the bottom shelf went a Moslem with a shattered leg, his bared, shaven head showing the tuft of hair by which Allah would raise him to heaven after death. The guy ropes of the medical tent sagged under a load of bloodstained surgical linen. As a handful of visitors, including TIME...
What was at the bottom of his Anglo-American tussle? Aiken is clearest and most direct when he tries to explain. He was drawn to England by the particular genius it represented, of which "the facets and fragments . . . sparkled everywhere, on every level." Its common base was "love of life . . . vivid intelligence and gusto"; its expressions ranged from sublime poetry to low ribaldry. Aiken heard it in the dialogue between two dear old English ladies watching lambs at play...