Word: slicked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This Monday, while oil-drilling "wildcatters" were digesting the significance of President Hoover's oil conservation policy (see p. 16), Thomas B. Slick, the king of all "wildcatters," credited with being the largest individual oil operator in the world, completed the sale of all his producing lands to the Prairie Oil & Gas Co. These properties-cream of the Seminole, Kay, Kansas, and North Texas fields-yield 34,000 barrels a day, and will bring Prairie's gross daily production up to about 105,000 barrels. They put into Producer Slick's pocket between...
...Brown is slick, suave, smooth, poker-faced. He smiles instead of laughs. As trustee of the Lucas County Children's Home, he is called "Uncle Walt" by its young inmates. Foods and their preparation fascinate him. He has an almost feminine passion for cooking. He refuses to eat a strawberry that has touched water. A Harvard graduate, he is 60, below medium height, dark of hair, slow to wrath...
...very cautious about putting unwarranted claims upon the labels of their products, because they know that thereby they render themselves liable to prosecution, fine and imprisonment under the Food & Drugs Act. But the Act does not apply to advertisements in newspapers, magazines, brochures or handbills. And through such bypasses slick manufacturers have made their effect on people inclined to take advertising claims at face value. Such advertised claims are rarely repeated on the labels or circulars with the packages of drugs. Federal prosecutors are usually helpless...
...percentage for the use of his premises. The players were Arnold Rothstein; George McManus, brother of a Manhattan police Lieutenant, Meyer Boston, shrewd Manhattan "operator"; Edward C. ("Titanic") Thompson, Chicago plunger; "Nigger Nate" Raymond, San Francisco sport; and a few lesser figures. Raymond was the big winner and a slick-looking fellow called "Tough Willie" McCabe, onetime Chicago beer-legger, was supposed to have a half interest in his play...
...sound and healthy part. While textile mills have failed, textile selling houses, or converters, have been showing profits. Notable among successful converters is the Cohn-Hall-Marx Co. (Manhattan) which increased its yearly (fiscal) earnings from $4.21 a share in 1927 to $6.47 in 1928. At its head is slick Lawrence Marx, whose most colorful achievement was the sale, last summer, of 30,000 shares of common stock. On the New York Curb, the stock was rising from a low of 23½ to around 50. But most of the company's outstanding 100,000 shares were...