Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Board of Trade is the nation's largest commodities exchange, a market that has become to the late '70s what the stock market used to be to the late '60s: a heady, go-go whirl that amounted to some $730 billion last year. Intones one Chicago broker: "This is the last bastion of pure capitalism in the world...
...onetime tennis instructor, Cahnman began playing the Chicago market three years ago when he gave up his job as a computer-time salesman, scraped together $5,000 and bought a permit to trade Ginnie Mae futures. Although he refuses to divulge his earnings, he has done well enough to buy a full membership in the Board of Trade for $135,000, which allows him to wheel and deal in all phases of the market. But there have been frightening lurches along the way. "Three tunes I've lost massive amounts of money," admits Cahnman, who is married...
...Department of Transportation. But since new plates were issued last month, 130 irate motorists in Scott County have returned the plates because they bore the prefix GAY. One woman wrote: "I cannot be a single teacher and sport those plates." A traveling salesman complained that while he was in Chicago, his car doors were kicked in because of the plates...
...more than 72%, and many top hostelries in big cities are doing even better. First-class hotels in Dallas were almost 80% filled last year. Week after week in Houston's Southwest Galleria district, the Galleria Plaza and the Houston Oaks fill 95% of their rooms. Chicago's O'Hare Hilton runs at more than 100% capacity-with strangers bedding down with strangers or sleeping on couches in the lobby and in booths in the restaurant-when storms or fog grounds planes. Says General Manager Lynn Montjoy: "I'm the nasty man who prays...
Exercise programs also give employees a chance to work off job and family frustrations. Chicago's Excello Press began a fitness plan a year ago after an irate pressman hurled his lunch pail into a press, causing $30,000 in damage. Now, says Excello President Gary Feldmar, "workers have a much more relaxed attitude. They can slam a racketball against the wall and pretend they're hitting their wife's head, or mine, and release tensions in a heal...