Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With U.S. addicts estimated to number somewhere between 60,000 and 300,000, dispensing of narcotics is under such strict federal regulation that (except for thefts from hospitals and doctors) practically no legitimate drugs get to the addicts. But tons of narcotics are smuggled in, mostly from Italy, much by such Mafia leaders as Vito Genovese. The Treasury Department's 420-man Bureau of Narcotics cannot check the flood...
...good judgment laid the base for the public's extraordinary confidence in the entire industry. When M.I.T. was founded in 1924, it startled the financial world with a brand new idea. Until then, the investment field had been dominated by "closed-end" investment companies; they sold a specific number of their own shares that were traded in the open market, concentrated on quick profits. M.I.T. shunned the lure of the fast profit, concentrated on long-term gains. More important, it threw out the closed-end idea by continually selling shares to anyone who wanted to buy, redeeming them when...
...last decade or so has started to hustle. "We have nothing to sell except service," said Lewis. He was one of the first to install business machines to help tellers figure accounts rapidly, in 1956 ordered an all-electronic bookkeeping system. And when most banks limited the number of checks a depositor could issue without charge in any one month, Lewis' slogan was "checks without charge for household bills...
...teacher registers him for the first day of school, he waits until she is not looking, steals the card, and scrams. "If you catch them at the neat minute," he explains, "there is no record in the whole world!" For about 20 years, no one gets Horatio's number (his full name, by no coincidence, is Horatio Alger), and he prowls Manhattan a free man, without diploma, social security, draft or credit card, without compensation for employment or unemployment, without driver's license or vaccination certificate. The authorities finally nail Horatio-his unnumbered presence appears as a sort...
...patterns that were innovated by the Art Nouveau school of the late 1890's. Art historians, ever sensitive to such trends, have just recently produced a flurry of books to document this fin de siecle style. As if to dignify the Nouveau group, the scholars have even proposed a number of somewhat questionable theories about its far-reaching importance for modern painters, most notably, Toulouse-Lautrec, Edward Munch and even Monet...