Word: gewgawful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their attempt to loot the Albany & Susquehanna R. R., saw its stock climb from $18 to $118 when he lifted the road out of receivership. It was his first real fight. Before gaudy Jim Fisk had left the Wall Street scene-murdered by the lover of one of his gewgaw women-Morgan was becoming a man to lean on as well as a foe to fight. It was to him that William H. Vanderbilt went to sell 250,000 shares of New York Central without disturbing the market. Morgan sold it all in England at $130 (the market), forced from...