Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canned Gold. A Manhattan firm, Bache & Co., was doing a good business selling 100-oz. cans of gold dust to investors at $3,945 a can. If the buyer then wanted to sell it to the U.S. Treasury he would lose money on it. The advantage in buying canned gold dust, to hard-shelled citizens who aren't sure that paper money is here to stay, is that it is the only form of gold that the Government lets them hoard. Another hoarder, Alf Ringen, the postmaster of Kindred, N.Dak., rebelled at a 15-year-old government order which...
...Administrator Paul Hoffman, who had been reported by the morning papers as saying he would resign if the Senate cut any more of the $3.5 billion which the House had allotted ECA for 1950. Said McKellar, chairman of the Appropriations Committee: "Other than giving away other people's money, I wonder what you are doing in Europe ... I think it would be the best thing for the people of the U.S. and Europe if you did resign . . . Why you sent a lobbyist to my hotel this morning and he tried to lobby me. He said you offered...
...that? I can't hear you." It drew a laugh and eased the tension. In Nicaragua, while International Bank president, he was taken to a ballgame by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. The third baseman was wild. Later, at a banquet, the local after-dinner speakers kept asking for money from the guest of honor's Bank. When McCloy rose to speak, the atmosphere seemed sticky. He promptly aired it by saying: "What Nicaragua needs most is a good third baseman...
Through the years some doctors grew envious of the publicity and money, that Dr. Fishbein got as traveler, radio speaker, newspaper columnist and author of 21 popular medical books that have sold 3,000,000 copies. Others resented the efficient battles he fought against anything that smacked of socialized medicine...
...dealer franchises for his Torpedo 8. The grand jury merely totted up Tucker's statements and labeled each one "false." Said the jury: Tucker & Associates, "seeking to capitalize on the unusual consumer demand" for autos, falsely "represented [Tucker] as an automotive inventor and designing genius" and obtained money "for [their own] personal benefit and profit" by "payments of excessive salaries and expense accounts to themselves, by the creation of fictitious experimental and development projects...