Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most businessmen have their own idea of how to promote a bull market, and last week at the American Chemical Society meeting in Manhattan the chemical industry took its turn at sounding off, incidentally setting new records for grandiose promises of what business could do if the Government would let it alone. Flaying the Administration for mixing Recovery with Reform, President William B. Bell of American Cyanamid Co. cried: "Recovery lies within easy reach. Already accumulated demands in the durable goods industries approximate $85,000,000,000. That is sufficient, when added to the ordinary consumer demands of the country...
...Playfair is favored over Bull in the 3000. Bliss will probably accompany Scheu in the 1500, with Wood-ward and Dorman in the 800. Eddie Calvin is favored to win the 200 and he and Green should take points in the century...
...Junior Varsity golf team will meet Governor Dummer Academy at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon at the Unicorn Country Club at Stoneham. The Jayvee golfers will be David G. Barrett '35, Richard G. Bull '37, Howard F. Gillette, Jr. '35, Colin Farquhar '36, Alan G. Pattee '37, and Francis S. North...
...from another. Few people can have known so much about dogs as Dr. Johnson, who was no expert, and who certainly did not learn what he knew from wiping his greasy fingers, after dinner, on the ready back of a collie. It is important, observed Dr. Johnson, that the bull-dog possess tenuity; the hind-legs must be relatively thin. Everybody attributes tenacity, as a moral quality, to the breed, and some Englishmen seem quite content for John Bull, who takes his name and characteristics from it, to be regarded as the national archetype. The other breeds, most of which...
...good reason why the first battle (Bull Run) was such an overwhelming defeat for the North was that Washington papers printed the plan of campaign days before the battle. Afterwards, the sadly shaken Governor of Massachusetts wired Washington asking to have "the martyrs who died in the late battle tenderly preserved in ice and sent forward." Author Pratt never hesitates to give his opinion of Civil War personalities, calls General Burnside "a pioneer in the art of personal salesmanship, simply oozing elusive charm and sterling worth from every pore." Benjamin F. Butler was "a classic example of the bartender politician...