Word: interested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston in 1920 was money-mad, and Ponzi had created the madness. Six months before, the 5 ft. 2 "Wizard of Finance" had been a $16-a-week clerk; now he was a millionaire. Ponzi promised to make everybody rich by paying 50% interest on investments in 90 days, or "double your money" in six months. His offer was incredible; but there were satisfied customers who seemed to prove his good faith. Thousands more pushed, scratched and fought their way into Ponzi's Securities Exchange Co., crying: "Take my money...
...Provided He Settle." During the war years (which he spent partly in the U.S. working on the synthetic rubber program), Weizmann listened hopefully to the friendly reassurances of Churchill and Roosevelt, and with special interest to Churchill's proposition that King Ibn Saud after the war be "made lord of the Middle East . . . provided he settle with...
...stock sold was a 25% German-held interest confiscated by the U.S. during...
...thought his price was right also: $7,990. Veterans could buy the house for $90 down and $58 a month (for 25 years). The monthly payments covered taxes, water, fire insurance, mortgage payments and interest. When Levitt put up a for sale sign, the crowd got so big that police had to keep them in line (see cut). In seven days, Levitt & Sons sold 707 houses, nearly $6,000,000 worth...
Last week, Laurance Rockefeller, who meanwhile had upped the stake of himself and his brothers in McDonnell to $400,000 and one-fifth voting interest, had further proof that his gamble had paid off. In Muroc, Calif., McDonnell gave the public its first look at the Voodoo, a single-seater, twin-engine plane which the Air Force hopes to use as a combination fighter, fighter-bomber or bomber escort...