Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the mass killing of war, the world's population had swelled by 8% since 1939 (nearly 200 million more people), but world food production had dropped by 7%. Because of last summer's drought, Europe's grain crop was 8,000,000 tons below last year...
Alfred de Marigny, acquitted by a Nassau court in 1943 of the charge of killing his wealthy father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, ran an ad in the Montreal Star, offering for sale: "Entire worldly possessions . . . pending departure for parts unknown."
Eight years ago, the Constitution muffed a chance to buy both the rival Journal and Hearst's Georgian and thus dominate the Atlanta area. Instead, James M. Cox grabbed them. By killing the Georgian and adding its circulation to the Journal's, Cox made it a bigger (circ.231...
Vanity Fair is constructed like a revolving stage, where city & country and night & day whirl drunkenly together. In the foreground, a naked figure leans out of his window to peer through the gloom at Cain killing Abel in the sunlit distance.
But the proposed merger had made it possible for many a stockholder-and speculator-to make a killing in the market. The merger talk, rumored in the market long before it was announced, had helped send Mission Corp. stock up from the year's low of $28¾to...