Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been in the thick of cinematic mergers, deals and syndicates. Only a few months before his appointment, his fellow Commissioner. Ferdinand Pecora. had spread his name upon the record of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee as a member of a big and profitable pool that operated in alcohol stocks in the booming summer of 1933. But the President knew his man better than did anyone else in Washington...
David Saperstein, director of SEC's Trading & Exchange Division, is an old-time Pecoraman. Smart, he has hired Wall Streeters steeped in the lore of the tape to watch the ticker day in, day out for signs of manipulation. Whenever his tape readers smell a pool, squads of SEC investigators swarm into action. Technical Adviser Paul Gourrich was trained in Kuhn, Loeb...
...plays the urbane host at small dinners famed throughout the Capital for the excellence of cave and cuisine. In the private cinema theatre he may later entertain friends like Senator Wheeler, Legalite Cohen, General Counsel Burns. In the mornings before breakfast he takes a dip, naked, in the swimming pool...
Last week, therefore, the Dominion was prepared to tackle its wheat problem from a different angle. Passed by both houses of Parliament and approved by Governor-General the Earl of Bessborough was a bill whose provisions represented a complete policy somersault. The measure abolishes the present pool, substituting for it a three-man wheat board appointed by the Prime Minister. The Board is not to continue the present wheat price-peg (80¢) but has the power to fix a minimum price at which it will buy wheat from Dominion farmers. Since the minimum price may often be less than...
...Clement, Curtis & Co., Chicago brokers. Slender, scholarly, pipe-sucking, he inherited his eye for crops from his father who was editor & publisher of the Cincinnati Price Current. Forecaster Murray started with the Department of Agriculture, whose crop reporting section he headed from 1920 to 1923. The Canadian wheat pool is said to have considered Nat Murray's crop estimates better than the U. S. Government's. His record for accuracy is best illustrated by the fact that the average of. his final crop predictions over an eight year period matched the Government's final estimates almost to a bushel...