Word: ooo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could make any sense of performances on the stock exchange, where the almost incredible number of 16,338,000 shares of U. S. Industry & Commerce were dumped as if they were so much junk. The day's transactions, including odd lots and other exchanges, undoubtedly exceeded 30,000.-ooo shares. Necessity, perhaps, but not Reason ruled...
...great profit-earner. On his part, he could use some millions to pay for papers which he had recently acquired and for others which he proposes to buy. The group called their parleys a deal, and last weeK the E. W. Scripps Co. issued $8,500,-ooo gold debenture bonds through the three banking houses...
Here lies Ooo-Rah, misbegotten child of Wild and Foolish Frenzy, conceived in playfulness, nourished in jest, and brought forth still-born before an expectant world. Bred to thunder forth the fame of wounded heroes stricken on the field of glory, poor Ooo-Rah never wheezed a note. No single "Ooo" nor yet a "Rah" did Ooo-Rah bellow out in signal of a lusty birth. One long protracted hush proclaimed before an anxious multitude that Ooo-Rah's birth was also Ooo-Rah's death. So let him lie and rest in everlasting peace. And may this simple tribute...