Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clothes, handsome manners, easy generosity and lugubrious wit. Publisher Howard had been a Senate page, a New York World reporter, a financial editor, an oilman. In 1916 he bought a racing stable, made a habit of attending every important U. S. race meeting, traveling in style whether flat or flush. In 1924 he started the New York Press in which, among racing tips, form charts, track gossip and ad- vertisements for ''advisory bureaus." he frequently reiterated his motto: ''All horse players must die broke." To friends he sardonically described his paper as "the fireside companion...
...Industrial Recovery Act he issued an executive order making it a Federal offense to ship from state to state oil produced or withdrawn from storage in violation of any state law. It was reported that 600 tank cars, awash with "hot oil," had rattled out of the great flush fields of East Texas the night prior to beat the President's order. Placed in charge of the "hot oil" order was Secretary of the Interior Ickes who had done much to get the petroleum industry on record against this brand of 'legging. He promptly issued drastic enforcement regulations...
Five feet three inches high, weighing nearly 125 lb., a man who dislikes tobacco, is indifferent to good clothes and almost as indifferent to statistics, he is a trader with a cold eye for a market profit. Totally lacking in the flush speculator's flair for spending but showing a magnificent willingness to take risks, he has been long and short on a big scale in most commodities, many stocks. He engages extensively in the very risky business of writing puts and calls. He made a fortune (reputedly $2,000,000) in the post-War boom, was cleaned...
...Union Pacific train will consist of three cars hinged together and seating 116 passengers. Four-wheel trucks will carry the entire train-one under the fore end, one under the rear end and one under each car joint. The whole will be thoroughly streamlined with windows flush and operating gadgets pocketed. Motive power will be electricity generated in the forward car by a gasoline (or butane) motor, otherwise by an oil-driven Diesel. Exulted Chairman Harriman last week: "The train is fully streamlined to a greater extent than has been attempted to date either in this or any foreign country...
...increased 70% in 30 days." This they did by using for comparison employment figures during the depths of the banking moratorium week. Audited figures showed an 8.7% gain in the last 30 days, a 9% gain from the week preceding the moratorium. To allow Mr. Zerk to flush more proxies, Stewart-Warner's annual meeting was postponed, for the second time, to June...