Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Bernard Baruch gave the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the U.S. the benefit of an old man's experience and advice. As usual, it was so commonsensible it sounded daring. The nub of it (with familiar Baruch bells on): the time has come to quit horsing around and get to work...
...commodity trading he had garnered a profit of $6,165, more than doubled his investment (he had previously lost more than $11,000 in stocks). He also had to admit that he had put out an inaccurate statement from the White House. He had said last month that he quit the market right after President Truman's angry denunciation of speculators in October. The fact was that he had not got out until about seven weeks later. He had not known, the General explained, that cotton and cottonseed oil were called commodities...
...rough, tough Mike Benedum, "greatest wildcatter in the world," wanted just one more big strike. His Plymouth Oil Co. had leased 800 acres in desolate Upton County in western Texas and started to drill for oil. Plymouth drilled down 10,000 ft. and lost $1,000,000 before it quit. That...
...Yates pool in Texas, in 1926. It prompted his claim that "Joe and I have unloosed more oil than anyone else." In unloosing it Benedum piled up a fortune estimated at over $80,000,000. The new strike, big as it was, proved only that a wildcatter could never quit...
...education, a lot of people think the girls are a bit rough," Miss Kitchin continued. "That isn't true at all; they learn how to be social hostesses." She noted that student government leaders had joined the faculty a few years ago in a campaign to make the girls quit walking around Cambridge in slacks and dungarees. After a stern battle, the rank and file agreed to wear these epitomes only on the upper floors of the dormitories. Miss Kitchin said in a firm voice: "Any girls in slacks or dungarees you see around here aren't Sargent girls. They...