Word: mike
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Since the farmer seldom comes to Wall Street, the firm of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane has decided to bring Wall Street to the farmer.- Explained Merrill Lynch's Des Moines manager Mike Dearth: "The farmer has made a hell of a lot of dough in the last few years. It ought to be put to work...
...were allowed to eavesdrop. Said Rubinstein: "That was the kitchen work, and you don't cook in public." In July, Piatigorsky went to the coast for a second session. Then in Chicago, they took two sessions to test Ravinia's temperamental microphones. Said Pianist Rubinstein: "With this mike, I play what is fortissimo and drown Jascha. But what should I do? Play mouse? I go crazy if I hold back and go nibble-nibble; fortissimo is not like a mouse...
...congressional opposition, Brannan was now willing to whittle his plan down to a three-product trial run (eggs, potatoes, shorn wool) and come back for the rest in two years. But even that was too much for the House. "I am afraid of the plan," shouted Fair Dealer Mike Monroney of Oklahoma. "If we can accomplish this trick of high producers' prices and low consumers' prices without the outpouring of billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury, then we have discovered something as great as . . . perpetual motion...
...opening round on Los Angeles' Rancho course, Mike DiCesaro of Houston got mad after losing to Ted Grassi of Erie, Pa. He let out a squawk to the rules committee, got Grassi disqualified for using clubs with illegal face grooves. Next day, Grassi followed DiCesaro around, heckling him continually and calling attention to his clubs, finally got him disqualified for using equally illegally grooved clubs...
Past performance meant nothing. Mike Ferentz, the Long Beach (Calif.) bartender who won last year's championship, got knocked out in the first round. Reporters, who set up press headquarters in the ladies' locker room, were soon calling the tournament "anybody's open...