Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Knuckled Under. In Zurich, Werner Zumbach got a ten-year suspended sentence for cutting off one of his thumbs, trying to cash in on a $46,000 disability-insurance policy.
At that point, Chairman Hurley and C-W's board of directors had another piece of news: the company cut its quarterly dividend almost in half, from 62½? to 37½?. Sales for the first nine months of 1959 were down $40 million, with a $6,400,000...
English Bull. In Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, while welcoming delegates to the annual conference of Britain's Law Society, the deputy mayor announced that the mayor was out of town, explained: "If he were here, I am sure he would be the first to apologize for his absence."
Diminishing Returns. In Pittsburgh, John James, 19, was arrested for stealing one car, stealing a second to push the first when it broke down, then siphoning gas from a third after the second ran out of gas.
Bristling. In Memphis, Brush Salesman Stanley Brown was fined $153 for trying to force a housewife into her bathtub so that he could demonstrate a back-scrubbing brush.