Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carter sought his raw materials in nature. Podophyllum resin, or podophyllin, is the resin of the dried root of the mandrake or May apple; Carter combined this with the dried juice of aloes. He chose as his trademark an overstuffed black crow, which gave a nice zoological balance to Bull Durham's bull on the nation's barns. By 1880 the growing business was incorporated. Millions of pills were shipped all over the U.S. and abroad...
...Casey organized a company called the American Overseas Tanker Corp. He put $20,000 of his own money into the company and raised another $80,000 from a group of stockholders, including such gilt-edged names as the late former Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey and Julius C. Holmes, now U.S. Minister in London. Casey then made arrangements with the Maritime Commission to buy five surplus tankers (original cost: $3,000,000 each) for about $8,500,000. Next, he made an agreement to charter the tankers to a Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) subsidiary...
...stock on the market), and are favorite stocks for speculators. Since they are "high-leverage" stocks,* they usually outrun the general market both up & down, and speculators give heavy play to both Tri-Continental and Selected whenever the market shows signs of a major move. In the 1950-51 bull market, for example, the common stocks of Tri-Continental and Selected both scooted up about 50%, v. a mere 25% rise in the Dow-Jones industrial average...
When an Army paratrooper steps out into space, he knows that the sudden blossoming of his parachute will rattle his bones, strain his joints, and for a breathless moment, make him feel like the popper on a bull whip. At worst, an opening shock snaps a paratrooper so violently that he blacks out, sometimes even causes heavy objects such as hand grenades to burst right through the pockets of his sturdy jump suit...
...Fertility Rites held at 8:26 a. m. yesterday, the sacred ceremony of consecrating the soil with bull's blood was performed to the solemn notes of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard," played by the Harvard Band. High Medicine Man Thomas A. Lehrer 4G was chanting "Hail Gropius, unorthodox, we hail thee at the vernal equinox," in front of the World Tree. Others were absorbed in contemplation...