Word: prunes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between 1930 and 1933 Floyd Odium gobbled up 22 investment trusts, pushed his long arm into such diversified businesses as prune ranching in California and the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan. These he acquired in his prime pursuit of shaky investment companies at less than their asset value. Then by careful merging and liquidating he would ride them through to recovery at a profit. But though Atlas' profits have been good, up to last week its 36,700 common stockholders had never received a cent in dividends. Therefore it was news indeed when Mr. Odium and his four directors...
...them with a broom. Minus roller skates, two boys returned to the store with a covered basket, set it down well inside the door, removed the cover, fled. Out of the basket flew approximately 100 dirty English sparrows. Sparrows filled the store, spotted cracker barrel, cookie counter, sugar and prune bins and pecked holes in the breakfast food boxes. For two days Grocer Baguilais, his wife and police swung brooms in the air and booed, knocked out two sparrows...
Newshawks found "Eve" Shinn in the middle of his gallery last week, re-enacting for the benefit of a few oldtimers another of his melodramas, dear to the author but less successful commercially than Hazel Weston. It was entitled Lucy Moore, the Prune Hater's Daughter. Leaping about the room, acting out each part and interpolating editorial comments, Artist Shinn gave his version of the plot. Excerpts...
...this fellow he not only hated prunes he wanted to ABOLISH them to crush the very germ out and gee whiz we had a swell machine on the stage with colored lights and the pits came out the end like bullets out of a machine-gun against a copper gong. . . . Bill Glackens* always was the villain, and he comes on with a long mustache covered with furs looking rich as hell. Lucy Moore spurns him 'cause he wants the machine as a prune pitter to make pies but wait a minute you haven't heard anything there...
...biggest dynamos. Natural gas properties must be divorced, hitting particularly Columbia Gas & Electric and Electric Power & Light. Restriction of holding companies to ownership of utilities is apparently aimed at such sidelines as Cities Service's big oil business and American Water Works & Electric's California prune orchards...