Word: junks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remedy this discrepancy. Standard & Poor's will compile its total on a base of 10 instead of the present 100, junk the present 1935-39 base years in favor of a 1941-43 base, when the average price of a single stock was $10. Thus, the new index will start off with a figure very close to the actual average price of one share of stock, and its fluctuations will accurately reflect the price fluctuations in the market as a whole...
...worst sort of pseudo-poetic prose, studded with such obesrvations as, "Life is a prostitute and death is a whore." The images employed are weak with age, except for a few borrowed from T.S. Eliot. Mr. Wulp, in short, quite effectively succeeds in turning his comedy to junk...
...laborers, convicts, beggars, merchants, clowns and children who live in the town of Nizhni-Novgorod where Gorky spent his childhood. The film has no continuous narrative. Instead you remember many of the images--the docks, the fair, 'Gypsy's' dance, Gorky and his friends combing the Nizhni-Novgorod junk heaps for wheels, and Grandmother Kashirin carting around the family house goblin in her shoe...
When Rackley arrived at Jessop Steel, he found an obsolete, junk-filled plant among tall weeds at the edge of town with a $4,100,000 debt, only $7,000 in the bank and 600 sullen workers demanding $300,000 in back wages...
...their own time, Jessop's managers and workers alike pitched in for a year to lug away junk, paint cranes, repair roads, whitewash walls, mend roofs, hang office draperies-all led by Rackley in person. Only once did a tired worker complain, calling Rackley a phony. Equally tired, Rackley promptly punched the dissident in the nose. In admiration for his hard work and leadership, employees gave Rackley a $2,000 kitchen for his home last year, gather there for parties with the boss...