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...Morgan & Co. and other banks poured $25,000,000 into the call-money market he took a short position. While older & wiser traders were wiped out, Jesse Livermore picked up a cool million or so and a reputation beyond price. Thirty years old, he was again dubbed the Boy Plunger-this time by Wall Street. He bought a steam yacht and sailed for Boston, where he spent $200,000 trying to save a brother-in-law from the chair for killing his wife...
Johnny Krol, Bud Kast, Joe Arico and Ray Hall are the other backfield threats that the Indians have to offer Arico is speedy but light, Hall is a chunky plunger, Kast is shifty but inexperienced, and Krol is to all appearances only a disappointment...
Among the baggage of U. S. Minister to Bulgaria George Howard Earle 3rd, when he sails March 9, will be a pinball machine, such as used to be in the executive mansion at Harrisburg, where the Governor (1935-39), during hot conferences, would stride up & down, snap the plunger furiously...
...situation was desperate and fraught with excitement. Despairing of improvement, Vag reached out with a timid hand, slowly, carefully, and then with a sudden bold motion firmly pressed the metal plunger. Another summoning of courtage, another depression of the plunger, and it was all over. Vag stood up, slipped a few coins into the small box marked P-L-E-A-S-E, and dashed out the door back to the comparative security of his third-floor room. Now there was only the anxiety of waiting for a small while envelope bearing the printed legend, "The Crimson Portro-self...
...proceeds bought up some 80 aeronautical properties, including 9,100 miles of airlines. These were presently lumped into American Airways. As might have been expected, the conglomeration had an operating loss of $3,400,000 in 1930. Successive losses brought continued shake-ups in management until 1932, when Plunger Errett Lobban Cord got control after a spectacular proxy battle...