Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they quit completely in this war, I congratulate them for their intelligence...
...that if Trip 21 was taking on ice. Pilot Scott would have reported it as airline rules prescribe, pointed out, too, that many other runs came in around the same time without icing trouble. Among themselves pilots made other guesses. Most likely: one of Trip 21's engines quit...
...most spectacular lone wolf in 33 years of Wall Street history was Jesse Livermore, who plunged in & out of four Wall Street fortunes. Last week he decided the odds against another comeback were too steep, quit the market for good...
...hour), who has been accused of starting several bear raids, periodically flabbergasts Wall Street by distressing ads titled "Fool's Paradise," "Pandemonium Ahead," "Nose Dive," etc. The other: William J. ("Billy") Baxter, economist-investment consultant, who in 1936 predicted a revolt in Britain, now expects the English to quit or fold up within a few weeks, carry Wall Street with them...
...three years short of half a century since he had made his first play in the market-a $3.12 profit on Burlington Railroad common. He was 15 then, a board boy in Boston's Paine, Webber & Co. They told him to stay out of the bucket shops or quit his job. He quit. A towheaded greenhorn from West Acton, Mass., son of a poor Yankee farmer, he began beating the bucket shops at their own game until they refused to take his business. With $2,500 in his pocket, 21 years behind him, he lit out for Wall Street...