Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blow came during the worst spell of winter within the memory of most Britons. Drifting snow had cut many important rail lines; many roads were blocked. Machinery at some mines was frozen over. The gap between Britain's long-dwindling coal production and consumption had thinned to the point of immediate disaster to Britain's export program and threat to her entire economy...
...then an obscure Wall Street millionaire with a sharp eye for bargains, thought the potential whole was worth the pieces. For $4,000,000 cash which he and some friends put up, he bought control of Alleghany Corp. from George A. Ball (Ball Mason jars), who was dabbling in rail stocks. (Another 1.2 million shares were held by Ball as security for an additional $2 million which Young needed to complete the deal.) For this small amount of money, Bob Young got close to $2 billion worth of assets, on the books. The assets included either large stock interests...
...could hang on no longer, Young sued Ball, and collected $4,000,000 (including Ball's Alleghany holdings) from him on the grounds that even the low price of the $2 billion empire had been rigged too high. Then Bob Young persuaded the ICC to order rail securities sold at competitive bidding, thus knocking Morgan, Stanley & Co. and other New York bond houses which had fought to bar Young from Alleghany out of much fat business once given them by friendly railroads. By then Young's sandy hair had turned white and his self-esteem had become somewhat...
...most gracious resort city the season was in full swing. Well-heeled Chileans and vacationists from foreign countries splashed in the green Pacific surf at Vina del Mar, took the summer sun on its white beaches 90 miles west of Santiago. Racing fans crowded the clubhouse and the rail at the Sporting Club to see Bromazo win the annual derby this week...
...means. Yenan's ruthless strategy is as old as Lenin's: "The Communists, by their unwillingness to compromise in the national interest, are evidently counting on an economic collapse to bring about the fall of the Government, accelerated by extensive guerrilla action against the long lines of rail communications-regardless of the cost in suffering to the Chinese people...