Word: rig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Presbyterian minister, he went to Princeton (class of '04), studied law at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh. After he had hung out his shingle in Pittsburgh, he scraped up $5,000 for an oil driller's rig and took a lease on some property not five miles from home. With beginner's luck, he struck. Since then he has followed the wildcatters from western Pennsylvania to the Gulf Coast of Mexico. He made a fortune, lost most of it in the 1929 crash, returned to the law practice he had never quite abandoned...
Still lazier anglers can find an outlet for their sloth in "tip-up" or "tilt" fishing. The fisherman merely sets his rig over an ice-hole and retires to the security of a bazing fire on the shore...
Investigators thought the Follansbee deal was an audacious attempt either to rig the market in Follansbee stock or to grab control of a steel mill to sell output in the grey market (see below). This week the elusive Mr. Fahye, who had been sought for several days, walked into the Attorney General's office. He was promptly jailed on a charge of violating the ban against security trading...
Most oilmen wondered whether Jones would be able to market his bonds and raise the money to keep up his end of the bargain. (His machinery sent into Mexico so far consisted of one old drilling rig.) But Jones counted heavily on the oil shortage, which would make the bonds an attractive investment to smaller refineries which have been feeling the oil drought...
...rig looked like a gibbet, nailed to the white railing fence of the newly opened Branchdale Racing Park near Holly Hill. A noose dangled from it, well out over the dirt track. Few of the well-dressed South Carolinians in the cars lining the rail were old enough to recognize it. It was a truss for goose pulling...