Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clergy, Homer, his own New England roots, Calvin, and even the President of the U.S.-seen in the White House swimming pool...
...simply by ringing a buzzer. Although as a rule, men may still not advance above the lobby floor of residences, they have free run of the Y.W.'s recreational areas. The Boston center, which last week held its 100th annual meeting, has even opened its sauna bath and pool once a week for a "businessmen's plunge...
...seek other opportunities for quick capital gains." Given the size of their buying power, said Martin, such activity "may virtually corner the market in individual stocks," at the least cause undesirable price fluctuations. "Practices of this nature" said he, "contain poisonous qualities reminiscent of some respects of the old pool operations of the 1920s...
After World War I, men like Jesse Livermore, Arthur W. Cutten and Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith preyed on the public. One bull device was the pools about which Bill Martin spoke: speculators pooled their capital, corporate connections and trading talents, and then quietly bought stock in a company. They artfully pushed up its value, suddenly sold out and let artificial prices plunge. One such pool in Sinclair Consolidated Oil earned $12,618,000 for Harry F. Sinclair and a group of cronies. Another in Radio, as RCA was then known, netted nearly...
...interview Wednesday, Elder contended that there could be no parallel between the teaching fellows' status and a labor-management situation. He pointed cut that Harvard is a non-profit organization with no pool of profits to distribute, and that teaching fellows are serving a kind of apprenticeship before they move on to higher-paying jobs...