Word: hould
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quiet manner is deceptive. He is a master salesman as well as a brilliant analyst. Only 34, he lives luxuriously in Manhattan's swank River Touse, owns a 100-ft. yacht called the Arab. Moreover, he has very clear notions on how investment counsel firms hould be run. When he is unable to run them his way, he moves. His latest move roots back to a shake-up which occurred in C. W. Young & Co., nearly a year ago. His backer-directors felt, among other things, that the firm was growing too big to be a one-man show...
...uncle were the first colonials to experiment with indigo manufacture. He started the American munitions industry in 1642 when he got an act through the General Court of Massachusetts ordering the production of such materials "as will perfect the making of gunpowder, the instrumental means that all nations lay hould on for their preservation. . . . Every plantation within the colony shall erect a house in length about 20 or 30 foote, and 20 foote wide within one half year next coming ... to make saltpetre from urine of men, beastes, goates, hennes, hogs and horses' dung...