Word: louie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Close by the Daily News building was Louie's saloon, where a bookie named Moxie shined a well-tailored elbow on the bar. He met Lane next day: "Who's this guy Oxie? The cops'll be thinking he's me." Lane fumbled only an instant: "You don't know Oxie? Why that's Oxie O'Rourke, down the street." Thus Oxie got a last name...
Dumpy, 55-year-old Louie Lurie made a fine bargain-even for him. He paid $1,525,000 for the land, took up the estate's debt to Hale's at its $350,000 face value and, as he puts it, "The building itself is worth a million dollars today...
...Hale-Penney operation was atypical Louie Lurie coup...
...World War I Louie Lurie had settled in San Francisco. As he tells it now, his formula was beautifully simple: "I'd buy lots south of Market Street for $5,000, put up a $10,000 building and sell the deal for $18,000-$20,000." In that way he 1) put up 259 buildings, including a score of San Francisco's cinemas; 2) kept his own growing fortune strictly liquid. The Hale-Penney deal did nothing to harm his finances...
Columbus' commandant, Colonel Louie Clifford Mallory, set his training director, 40-year-old Lieut. Colonel Joseph B. Duckworth, to find the nearest thing there is to an antidote for accidents. Georgia-born Joe Duckworth, who had piled up 12,500 hours' flying time, mostly in a decade of service with Eastern Air Lines, soon decided that too often the teachers were undertaught...