Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glenn G. Munn of Manhattan's Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis seemed bullish. Said he: "Time is running out on this stock market [down] cycle." On the other hand, he was also bearish: "Business may be in a slow-motion rollover into an oldfashioned, spiraling, chain-reaction decline." However, investors should also remember that "we are in ... the Treasury-Keynesian-Keyserling cycle. That means Government intervention-cheating the silly down-cycle from its accustomed brutal innings...
...Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. utilized atomic energy to lay the two-ton cornerstone of its new building in Manhattan; a miniature nuclear reactor split ten U-235 atoms generating an electrical impulse which burned a ceremonial ribbon, touched off a magnesium flare and caused a chain hoist to lower the stone one foot into position...
...read, mostly without comment, "Still Falls the Rain," "Three Songs from the Honey Hive" and "The Chain Gang," a poem she said she never had recited before...
Twelve Nights in a Club. The Pyramid Friendship Club game had swept east to Detroit from Southern California. The clubs operate like chain letters, but with one notable exception-to avoid using the mails, members meet and exchange money at nightly parties...
...glib throng of amateur and professional confidence men -there were numerous ways of sidetracking money during its hand-to-hand progression toward the top of the pyramid. In Detroit, Assistant Prosecutor Ralph Garber said: "There are enough innocent people winning from $800 to $1,500 to keep the chain process alive. But I have yet to find anyone who has won the $4,096." But newspapers which warned against Pyramid Clubs or prosecutors who tried to break them up, quickly discovered that the pyramiders had no wish to be saved. In Los Angeles' suburban Huntington Park, a courtroom-full...