Word: chip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., secretary-treasurer of the National Democratic Executive Committee, commented on the nomination of W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits") O'Daniel, radio flour salesman, for Governor of Texas: "He is a real man and he knows what he is doing. . . . He is my kind of a Democrat...
...worst break the Berlin Stock Exchange has suffered under Adolf Hitler shrank the prices of leading issues by some 7% one day last week. A prime German blue chip, Vereinigte Stahl Werke (United Steel Works), dipped for the first time in several years below its par of 100 marks per share. None doubted that without the strict Nazi control of German finance the break would have been even worse. Although prices later recovered perhaps half their losses last week, as the Reichsbank strongly supported blue chips, the mood of the average German investor had turned deeper blue...
...Wall Street this easy sale, in a period when stock flotation had never been so difficult, produced two reactions. Financial World dubbed Philip Morris "a coming blue chip." Cynical tobacco stock specialists, however, were still unconvinced. Noting that more than two-thirds of Philip Morris sales are urban, they wondered whether, with its sophisticated slant, it would ever have truly national appeal. And they shook gloomy heads over the action of New York City (where Philip Morris sells one-fifth of its smokes) in imposing a 1? a package cigaret tax two months ago. Other cigaret companies could pass this...
Thrifty Joseph Stalin belatedly bet another blue chip on the Spanish Loyalists last week in the form of ten splendid Soviet warplanes. Tons of other Soviet war paraphernalia have reached the Leftists in the past month via France. Amid wild cheering in recently bombed Barcelona, Soviet war birds in mass formation darkened the sky and last week the Leftist Cabinet reorganized itself for a last-minute effort to crawl between the jaws of defeat and wrench out the tonsils of victory...
...only five out of 60. In other words, the probabilities would be .085106 in the former instance and .083333 in the latter. TIME, therefore, is nearly 18/100 of one percent in error and if the responsible party feels indebted for this information, I'll settle for one blue chip...