Word: em
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paid to a Wall Street tipster to get him just five minutes with some of the cash-heavy New York financiers who had made a killing by selling short in the Great Crash. Then, to five of Wall Street's biggest "bears," including Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, Weston offered his idea: buy up British bakeries at Depression prices to provide a readymade outlet for Canada's vast supplies of cheap wheat. So convincingly did he argue that the five put up $2,000,000 to back his venture...
...tried to set fire to a truck with a gasoline-soaked rag. Eggs came flying toward the marshals, then rocks. Out of the gathering darkness hurtled a length of metal pipe. It struck a marshal on the side of the helmet, stunning him. That was enough. "Let 'em have it!" yelled Chief Marshal James McShane. "Gas!" Tear-gas guns went off with metallic whoomps, filling the air with blinding mist. The crowd screamed and retreated. But the battle had only begun...
...breaks it all up, and war comes to the Jenkinses appropriately enough with the arrival of a general in a motorcar. A visiting uncle is heard to mutter: "Never driven one in my life. Not too keen on 'em. Always involved in accidents. Some royalty in a motorcar have been involved in a nasty affair today...
...em Friday," said San Francisco manager Alvin Dark as he stalked off the field at Candlestick Park yesterday. The invading New York Yankees, with veteran lefthander Whitey Ford on the mound, had just beaten Dark's Giants 6-2. The playing was as lopsided as the score indicated...
...battle for export markets. Edgar Kaiser already foresees the possibility. Says he: "When that comes up, we'll just have to be competitive. We face competition when these countries industrialize, no matter whether we help them or not. So I say, 'Let's join 'em...