Word: hocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shrewd old Henry J. Kaiser and his son Edgar never put much of their own fortune into Kaiser Frazer Corp., their automobile manufacturing company which Edgar runs. Kaiser-Frazer lost some $52 million during its seven years of existence, and is $48.4 million in hock to the RFC. Old Henry put most of the family's millions into the highly profitable Kaiser Steel, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical and Permanente Cement companies, controlled by his personal holding company, the Henry J. Kaiser...
...thieves apparently entered through a back door, tossed a ham hock from the refrigerator to a watchdog (he was still gnawing contentedly when the police arrived), greased the bottom of the safe with a cake of soap and dragged it away. The money included two $10,000 and 200 $1,000 bills. At week's end, the cops were baffled...
...Peroy. Most connoisseurs would open their Moselles before three years. Andre Simon believes that the best Moselle is a very young Moselle; Maurice Healey, following Professor Saintabury, will drink a four-year Moselle, but none older. It is possible that the writer of your article was thinking of a Hock, or Rhine wine, grown somewhat to the east of the Moselles, which does have a somewhat to the east of the Moselles, which does have a somewhat greater staying power; but it must be remembered that no white wine, not even a Montrachet, can really be said to improve with...
...without tact or any conception of the dignity of his office, Clément disgraced the name of Sanson by establishing a museum of horrors in his home, where for five francs the curious public could watch the family guillotine decapitate a sheep. When he put the guillotine in hock for 3,000 francs and showed up at an execution armed with one of his ancestor's axes, he was finally deposed. Ugly rumor says he eventually became a butcher in Newark...
...Corp. Dunham, said Strandlund, put on pressure to make him sell 60,000 of his shares of Lustron stock "without compensation." Strandlund said he refused, and that soon after, RFC foreclosed and forced Lustron into bankruptcy. At the time, he neglected to emphasize, Lustron was already $37.5 million in hock to the RFC, and had little prospect of making any money to pay it back-a fact which seemed to indicate that RFC was principally derelict in not clamping down on Lustron several millions earlier...