Word: float
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Butler Street police court charged with being drunk and disorderly. The presiding magistrate, James M. Tighe, who happened to be president of Brooklyn's own Celtic Varuna Boat Club, was not impressed with the difficulties of the Norsemen's voyage. "A boat like that," he said, "will float like a chip on the water and never go down. I myself would be ready any day to make one of a crew to row her back to Norway...
...application for a $70 million loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. The new credit, according to McCarthy, came from the Equitable Life Assurance Society and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., who together are already owed an estimated $50 million by McCarthy companies. In the autumn, McCarthy added, he would float a public stock issue on his McCarthy Oil & Gas Corp...
...celebrating the 150th anniversary of Jefferson's election. A nonpartisan "host committee" was organized to raise $250,000, and Democratic wards briskly funneled contributions to it. Explained "Botchy" Connors, a cigar-smoking ward boss: "If there are any businessmen in the ward, we ask them to contribute a float or something." The U.S. Treasury helpfully ruled that contributions for "floats or something" were deductible as business expense...
...centavos which it can induce people to plunk down on store counters or drop into the slots of amiable selling robots. In this laudable endeavor, Coca-Cola has been uncommonly successful. It is currently selling about 50 million Cokes a day all over the world-enough to float a light cruiser. Last year, the Coca-Cola Co. took in nearly $128 million (leaving a net profit of nearly $38 million, a third of it from foreign business...
...fairytale through which float and gleam all the magical, unmodified desires of childhood, Peter Pan can be rather touching at moments, and it is not too heavily coated with the stickier side of Barrie's charm. But for old and young alike, Peter Pan is most fun when it is pure fun. It comes into its own as a gaudy extravaganza about things that suddenly light up, crocodiles that have swallowed alarm clocks, houses that are slung together on the stage, pirates that fight Indians, children that can fly through...