Word: plunger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once planted 100 pigeons in a friend's office), heavy-jowled, big-nosed Herbert got into banking in 1907 after making a small fortune in wood, paper and power mills. Subsequent huge profits in shipping, agriculture, oil, mining, hotels and cement won him great repute as a daring plunger. But some stockholders charged that his plunges were more profitable to Herbert than to them. (Last month the Maritime Commission listed him among those who milked the Dollar Line almost to extinction...
...professional football season reached its halfway mark last week, Laundryman George Preston Marshall's Washington Redskins, defending champions of the National Football League, were out in front in the 1938 race-as expected. Major disappointment of the season was Plunger Art Rooney's Pittsburgh Pirates, who had won only two games, lost five...
...launched his own firm with eight employes. Now it has 150. On its shelves often sit as much as $25,000,000 in Government securities, and Christopher Devine's pockets are supposedly lined with several million dollars. Blue-eyed, quiet, he belies his repute as a plunger. His greatest coup was last June's buying of an entire $60,000,000 issue of Pennsylvania Tax Notes. His astute bid of $109,928,008 plus $500 was high by precisely one cent. Christopher Devine then unloaded the entire $60,000,000 in 45 minutes...
...wings so far are Bill Watt of last year's Varsity football team, and Gerry Desmond from California. Both of these men held the same positions on the team last spring, but they are being pushed hard for their places by Art Oakes and "Five Yards" Mike Cohen, line-plunger extraordinary...
...which shoots a disk on the end of a plunger at house flies...