Word: peg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What aroused Columnist Pegler was a rough sketch used for publicity by the San Francisco citizens' committee, which is now out raising $15,000 for materials. "It is," said Old Peg, "a figure with . . . a pointed beard, inclosed in an aviator's helmet and having, beneath the chin, a sort of bib or drool cloth. The hands are upraised in the standard posture of the guest of honor at a stickup and the figure then declines, round, rigid as a concrete pipe and innocent of fold or human line, to the waist, where it disappears into...
...price mistakes can be thus explained. As an example of "the way in which, under modern methods of finance capitalism, the business policies of companies may be warped by forces remote," he cites the participation of National City Bank and Anaconda Copper Mining Co. in the famed campaign to peg copper prices artificially high in the late 1920s in order to grab extra profits from sale of securities. Inevitable result was chaos in the industry and the price broke from...
When in 1927 he had to have a leg amputated-it had been frozen in his last Greenland expedition-it looked as if Freuchen would have to take things easier. Informal, he stomped around the house on his peg leg, wore his artificial limb only when he went out in society. But soon he was going stronger than ever. He made two trips to Greenland, where he revisited old friends, brought their stories up-to-date, dug up many a new tale. A special part of his pleasure, the reader suspects, was his wife's slightly sick astonishment...
Though prices rallied slightly by week's end, they remained well below the 9? figure at which Commodity Credit Corp. bought surplus cotton last year. Organized in 1933 "to insure the orderly marketing" of cotton and other products-in short, to peg prices-Commodity Credit was once regarded as one of the New Deal's few self-sustaining agencies. But despite its auspicious start in 1933-34, its successful $200,000,000 issue of Government-guaranteed 3/4% notes last month, the agency has lately run into difficulties.* Recently it announced a $51,000,000 loss on 12? cotton...
...solemn-faced Prime Minister. Expressing regret that New Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood had been taken from his "salubrious employment as Minister of Health and forced to don the panoply of Mars," Mr. Churchill cracked that Mr. Chamberlain was trying to solve the air problems by "putting a round peg in a square hole." The House roared with laughter. Sir Kingsley, called "Cherub" by his friends, is as round-bellied as Mr. Churchill himself...