Word: lode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enjoyed an income of $500,000 a year. Ellin Mackay, second daughter of wealthy Clarence (Postal Telegraph) Mackay and his blue-stocking wife (author of Stone of Destiny) had grown up at Harbor Hill, the $6,000,000 country estate at Roslyn, L.I. that tough old miner John (Comstock Lode) Mackay gave Clarence Mackay for a wedding present...
...sugared and caricatured. Mickey Rooney's imitation of a boy's good & bad manners aboard a train is a bit of universal human comedy which Rooney's broad-axed clowning recklessly highlights. The Andy Hardy pictures are practically the only contemporary screen scratchings into the Comstock lode of U.S. genre comedy. Bad as they are, they are the nearest screen equivalent to Charles Dickens...
...Backyard Lode. Even Wall Street had a bonanza: the Exchange's biggest firm, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane struck gold in its own backyard. From a modest net of $147,000 in 1942, when it was desperately stripping ship to sail out of the market doldrums, Merrill Lynch kited its profits 33 times to $4,854,000. To do that, Merrill Lynch had to buy & sell $3,000,000,000 in securities and commodity contracts. The profits will not be long in pocket. Taxes, which are not computed in the net-Merrill Lynch is a partnership and taxes...
...over a year, the U.S. fur industry has speculated about a strange new fur, a lustrous platinum mink with a soft blue overtone. Many a furrier was not certain whether it was a worthless freak or a Comstock lode for U.S. fur breeders...
...Bernie Baruch went back to finance-this time as a creative investor. He made money during the '20s, quietly liquidated his investments before the 1929 crash. He went on serving as unofficial adviser to Presidents: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover. Under Franklin Roosevelt he has been a mother lode of fact and theory to the Administration-as well as its severest friendly critic...