Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dinner-jacketed waiters scurried through the mapled grounds carrying fancy fowl, champagne, sizzling rare cuts from an outdoor .barbecue pit. A Newport fire company stood by. Also on hand if needed was a battery of floodlights, in case the overtaxed Tyson electrical system gave way. Outside the grilled enclosure of the Tyson home uninvited guests danced in the street to the Tyson music. The party ended soon after 6 a.m., with a dawn swim at Bailey's Beach and a gourmet's breakfast...
Some open-pit mining of tin ore can be resumed as soon as the Japs move...
...pariahdom. In his third year he tackled another bully, finished him off with an astonished "30 seconds of deliriously swinging one haymaker after another." In the Fourth Form he was a star high-jumper despite heckling classmates who chanted "Bop-Bop-Bop" at the side of the jumping pit. By graduation he had attained respectability with the kudos of a letterman in both football and crew...
Traders in the grain pit on the Chicago Board of Trade have not had so much excitement since the Cargill Grain Co. of Illinois cornered the corn market in 1937. This time it was an alleged corner in rye. As usual at such times, the air was hot last week with acrimonious charges and countercharges, all hinting at scandalous disclosures involving Government agencies and politicos...
...place of corn syrup. By May 1944 General Foods and Rice controlled 11.8 million bu.-almost 89% of the deliverable rye. Other speculators soon realized that a corner was in the making, and they waded into the market with big chunks of cash. The rye pit seethed with all of the excitement of the old days (see cut). Result: the price of rye soared...