Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final accounting, attorneys' fees, executors' commissions, administrative charges and funeral expenses would subtract a $200,000 chunk from the estate. Estate taxes would take out considerably more. But the remaining fortune made F.D.R. the second richest U.S. President...
...personal empire. In addition to running AVCO, he is a director in six other companies, has a chunk of stock in mammoth Standard Gas & Electric Co., of which he was once board chairman, and is a special partner in a brokerage house, Emanuel. Deetjen...
...paper expansion due to increased prices or a normal increase necessitated by the increase in production, the delay in shipments. Some of it was probably caused by manufacturers stocking up in anticipation of higher prices. But what the Department of Commerce-and some businessmen-feared was that a sizable chunk was due to a decline in demand because of 1) high retail prices and 2) overproduction of certain items...
...farmer near Kensington, Minn. dug up a 202-lb. engraved chunk of rock now known as the Kensington Stone. It may be seen to this day in an office window on Broadway Avenue, Alexandria, Minn. The farmer found it, so the story goes, embraced by the roots of an aspen tree. Bewildered by its cryptic angular markings, he carted it to Kensington and showed it off. A young Norwegian-born University of Wisconsin graduate named Hjalmar Holand heard of the stone, came to look it over. Then & there began the one-man crusade of which America...
...spent a fair chunk of the $53 million raised by two public stock issues. Having survived infancy, it was ready to walk...