Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like a diamond in a coal bin this week glittered the annual report of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, biggest of all Wall Street brokers (TIME, Aug. 4). Although the security business is awful, Merrill Lynch, which lost $308,000 in the last nine months of 1940, earned a smacking...
...announced last night that tickets to the President's Birthday Ball, to be held in Memorial Hall tomorrow evening, can be bought at Phillips Brooks House. The receipts from this dance, in honor of the President's Diamond Jubilee birthday will go to the infantile paralysis fund, together with the proceeds from similar affairs all over the country...
Evalyn Walsh (Hope Diamond) McLean, famed thrower of famed Washington parties, bought a new District of Columbia estate for a rumored $150,000, began moving her things from "Friendship," which she has sold to the U.S. for a housing project. Said she: "I shall . . . keep on ... with the same old parties and the same old friends." She bought her new diggings, complete with elaborate formal gardens, outsize ballroom, marble-floored billiard room, and swimming pool from Alexander Kirk, U.S. Minister to Egypt...
...Intercontinental's first big customer around 1910 (when tree rubber was $2.07 a lb.) was Diamond Rubber Co., later bought by Goodrich...
When Japanese bombers whipped over the frowning fastness of Diamond Head last Sunday morning the book of traditional U.S. naval strategy in the Pacific was torn to shreds. When the Japanese bombs had ceased to fall in the defense-crammed area around Pearl Harbor the book was out of print. Japanese tactics, which some called suicide war and others, less hopeful, the typical spring-legged assault of the determined underdog, called for revolutionary strategy...