Word: rigging
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...market, with no SEC to regulate it, can be played on margins as low as 5% instead of the 40% now required for stocks. Biggest inducement is that the Government, with its powers over the banking structure and its large trading operations in its own securities, can and does rig the market to protect its issues, which private financiers are forbidden...
Thank you for dressing us up in our Sunday best, even if you did rig us out with a fiddle-player's hat and a necktie sure to get caught in the job-press. Thank you for telling the world that the country newspaper is a going concern...
...other end of Lake Erie, Buffalo was buffeted by 30-ft. waves. Police had to rig hand lines through streets for pedestrians. The wind touched 66 m.p.h. Two oldsters died of heart-failure, one bucking the wind, the other chasing...
...rows of seats, until the rake hurtled by into the blackness. Crazed with fear, men forgot the first rule of the rake-rider and jumped to their feet. They were decapitated by the jagged hunks of coal sticking out of the shaft roof. Halfway down the shaft the whole rig left the tracks and piled up with a crash heard at the mine mouth a mile away...
...Wellman, who helped concoct his own story, tried to reflect the whole bright saga of flying through the prism of a conventional triangle plot. When Pat Falconer, Scott Barnes and Peggy Ranson are moppets, sailing kites in imitation of the airship Peggy's inventor father is trying to rig up in his workshop, the device succeeds brilliantly. By the time the children have grown up into Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland and Louise Campbell, the narration of their story seems a tediously oblique fashion of presenting material which would make almost any purely personal romance seem drab by comparison...