Word: colossial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unwordly worship of theory, the aloof reserve, the detached and implacable prudence, which the uninitiated customarily attribute to the colossi of the chess world, apparently disintegrate once the wizards of the checkered board sniff a good Queen's Gambit or sense a toothsome French Defense in the offing...
...more bank stock than any man in the history of the world-$475,000,000 worth in 2,235 institutions. Last week he began to use his new power by dictating who should be board chairman of the biggest bank in the Midwest (see p. 43). But colossi often have foot-trouble and Jesse Jones's 6 ft. 3 in. is no exception. On the days when he works ten or twelve hours-a habit his childless wife, whom he married when he was 46, has not been able to break him of-his feet bother him. An earthy...
...packed all the seats of the Music Hall twice daily, the margin of profit, after taking out Roxy's $100,000 weekly overhead, would have been extremely small. Showmen recalled the old Hippodrome, last seat of spectacles. There one used to be able to witness such theatrical colossi as herds of performing elephants, tanks full of mermaidens, the siege of Port Arthur, the capture of Veracruz. Public apathy landed the spectacular old Hippodrome on the rocks in 1929. As holder of one of the largest individual stakes in the U. S. entertainment business, Mr. Rockefeller must have known about...
...high. Of the 1,100 operating in 1918, only 164 are active now. Only 24 of these have a capitalization of over $1,000,000. Most of them have been losing money for a decade and would need several very profitable years before they could brew dividends for shareholders. Colossi in the ruined industry are Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and Pabst Corp. Anheuser-Busch has built up profitable sidelines in yeast, ice-cream, ginger ale, truck bodies, coal. If beer is legalized the company can in two hours start turning out about half of its pre-Prohibition yearly output...