Word: floated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Wall Street was baking a pie much suited to Funston's taste; it was getting ready to float the first public stock issue of the Ford Motor Co. (TIME, Nov. 14). To Funston, this was a "landmark in the history of the ownership" of American business. To brokers, it was the biggest stock pie they had ever seen ($400 million). And everyone seemed to want to buy a bite. Orders flooded in by mail and phone; thousands of people who had never ventured inside a broker's office got ready to shell out their savings...
Through Saigon's streets rolled a float depicting a swinish Emperor Bao Dai swilling cognac with one hand, clutching a nude blonde with the other, while an overbearing French rascal stuffed the royal pockets with gold. The question before the people in South Viet Nam's first free national election was in effect a choice between Premier Ngo Dinh Diem as their head of state or Bao Dai, their absentee playboy sovereign...
...after he shot himself in the backside with a pistol he drew from his hip pocket during a card game, Calvin Richardson was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, explained to police that he only had the thing on him for collateral in case he lost and had to float a small loan...
...over a telephone and order a room clerk to turn over his suitcases to a French friend, who would shortly call to pick them up. Jean-Louis would then collect the suitcases, drive to the river and dump them in. It pleased him to watch them float unopened downstream before sinking...
...loneliest job in the world." Wouk, a tall, darkly handsome man of 40, was relaxing at his ocean-front home on New York's Fire Island, trying to fix a 30-year-old reading lamp, lolling on the sand, teaching his five-year-old son how to float...