Word: flier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well established fact That Uncle Sam will take you in- Break you in- Make you in-to Anything you could desire. Uncle Sammy wants to hire- Actors with dramatic fire- Singers who to fame aspire- Dancers who can kick-but higher. Uncle Sam will take a flier- Which is why we all inquire- "Say Can You Sing-Dance...
...Engineer Doherty left to become professor and presently engineering dean at Yale. A dabbler in painting, Dean Doherty advocates a flier in fine arts for meticulous, scientific minds...
According to one witness at the Old Bailey trial, Howeson's flier in pepper was a complete side-show for him. Garabed Bishirgian was a Howeson crony, and while transactions were for the account of a company headed by Howeson, the pepper trading was done through Bishirgian & Co. Messrs. Bishirgian & Howeson started to play the shellac market late in 1933, switched to white pepper in 1934 with the idea of cornering the world supply. By that summer the Howeson firm was loaded up with some $2,000,000 worth of shellac and about $5,000,000 worth of pepper...
Gambling on the public's reaction to Becky Sharp at the world premiere of that all-color film at Manhattan's Music Hall last week, hundreds of Wall Streeters took a flier in Technicolor stock on the New York Curb. If John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Pioneer Pictures, which control 15% of Technicolor, Inc., made an impressive splash with their $1,000,000 production, the black-&-white cinema industry might become as passe as the silent films, and Technicolor would stand as a very profitable colossus at the entrance to a new era in cinema production...
...mines, he has a large stake in Alaska Juneau, carries a miniature gold brick in his vest pocket. Ben Smith has other loves, including shellac, white pepper and New York Ship-building Co. Last week Wall Street was not surprised to learn that Ben Smith had also taken a flier in biscuits...