Word: legerdemain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing, the Government, always suspicious of Wall Street, gladly approved the deal for sale of the Inches because it got back all but $2 million of the $145 million it had spent to build the pipelines. Moreover, the financial legerdemain had created something of benefit to the nation. By finding an outlet for Texas gas, the company would cut down the shocking waste of over 600 billion cubic feet of gas a year now "flared" at Texas and Louisiana oil wells...
...Amber enthusiasts may not realize that they are not getting what they paid for. By way of insuring a reputed $6 million investment in the picture, Darryl Zanuck & Co. have performed near-miracles of cinematic legerdemain that distract attention from Amber's uninteresting innocence. Chief distractions...
...begins with a shadow-menaced shot of a corpse, then plunges headlong into a feverish chase after a knife-wielding paranoiac killer. Made with considerable style, it is a more diverting whodunit than most of the current crop of movies that mix homicide with psychiatry. Thanks to some suave legerdemain in its direction and playing, it even gives the impression of being a better movie than...
Soon after, ailing Standard Gas went into reorganization, and V.E., who had been chairman of the board, stepped out in favor of Leo Crowley. The great days of financial legerdemain, when a man could run a few electric light bulbs into a utility empire, were gone for good. V.E. looked around for fresh territory. In the sprawling Cord Corp., which then included AVCO as a subsidiary, he found...
...Bolsheviks came to power. Eventually he made his way to England, studied economics at Cambridge University, quit to apply what he had learned. In his first deal, he made $17,000. At 24 he was running Paris' Banque Franco Asiatique, dabbling in French politics, performing feats of financial legerdemain for all comers-at a fee. He was also playing the French money market. Result: in 1935 the French Government ran him out of the country for selling francs short (he made a reported three million francs [$210,000] doing...