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...also made his cattle thirsty by letting them lick salt while driving them to market, then filled them up with water before weighing them for sale. From this practice came the financial term "watered stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Scarlet Woman of Wall Street | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Like Sugar Ray Robinson, Chicago's Johnny Bratton is fond of flashy clothes and cars, can handle a hot lick on the drums, and boxes with a fancy-Dan prance. When Sugar Ray graduated to the middleweight title by out-punching Jake LaMotta (TIME, Feb. 26), Bratton decided to apply for Sugar's vacant welterweight title. In Chicago's Stadium last week, 23-year-old Johnny put up a fight for it.* His opponent: New Jersey's Charley Fusari, 25, who has the distinction of once having stayed in the same ring with Sugar Ray Robinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Champion | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

This week the Reds broke contact over most of a 70-mile front, fell back to lick their wounds. Matthew Ridgway, who is not given to boasting, claimed a clear-cut victory: "We have defeated the Communist counteroffensive in the central sector. The Communists have taken a fearful beating, and have disengaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Fearful Beating | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...lick the crisis, inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Boom-ta-ra | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...could lick you yet, I guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White-Collar Laureate | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

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