Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trans Continental management denied any complicity in the selling, said it did not even know about it. One question the SEC may want answered as it investigates: Where did the high-pressure operators get their hands on a large enough chunk of stock to peddle...
...before he sold his holdings for $2,632,000 during a 1937 fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission. California knows Cord as the man who developed a fabulously profitable eight-block stretch of Beverly Hills' Wilshire Boulevard, owns the 31-acre Pan Pacific Auditorium, has a huge chunk of Santa Anita track stock...
Sandwiches may be open or closed, ruled Sir William P. Hildred, I.A.T.A. director general, but they must be "cold . . . simple . . . unadorned . . . inexpensive," and consist of "a substantial and visible" chunk of bread. The association ruled out "materials normally regarded as expensive or luxurious, such as smoked salmon, oysters, caviar, lobster, game, asparagus, pate de foie gras," as well as "overgenerous or lavish helpings which affect the money value of the unit." Carriers that have been serving just such lavish sandwiches consoled themselves by reflecting that the ruling, after all, did not affect the chef's imagination. Said a spokesman...
...check for pink windshield stickers, examine badges, wave the privileged on to their work. Construction workers peel off toward half-finished launching facilities. Others spike off to hangars, laboratories, snack wagons and a hundred separate sites. At the lox plant, they run the machinery that daily chews up a chunk of damp Florida air and transforms it into 75 tons of liquid oxygen...
Free-traders won a victory last week that brought happy news to Japanese makers of stainless-steel flatware (TIME, March 3). Though the Japanese captured a big chunk of the U.S. market last year, President Eisenhower rejected a Tariff Commission recommendation for sharp duty boosts that would have raised prices of the Japanese ware in the U.S. by an average 35%, might have kept it out entirely. Instead, the President accepted Japan's promise to hold exports to the U.S. this year to the 1956 level of 5.9 million dozen pieces (v. 7.5 million dozen...