Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest gold rush since the Klondike was on last week. But most of the prospectors were the slick, sharp-eyed speculators of the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges. In the "kaffir circuses"-the usually cautious sections of the exchanges where South African gold stocks are traded-the market value of Orange Free State shares zoomed $100,000,000 in 48 hours...
...only because his enemies sneer that Jinnah, head of India's Moslem League, is lax in his religious observances. ("Jinnah does not have a beard; Jinnah does not go to the Mosque; Jinnah drinks whiskey!") With his perfect English, which he speaks better than his native Gujerati, his slick grey hair and graceful, precise gestures, he might be a European diplomat of the old school. How such a man at a fateful moment in history came to be the spokesman for millions of Moslem peasants, small shopkeepers and soldiers, is a story of love of country and lust...
Ivar Kreuger, ill-famed Swedish match king, shot himself in a Paris apartment 14 years ago, but the evil that he did lived after him.* Not until this week were the effects of his slick cartel-making wiped out in the U.S. The end came in a consent decree in the Government antitrust suit against Kreuger's old Swedish Match Co. and six companies dominated by secretive U.S. Match King William Armstrong Fairburn. A Federal court in Manhattan ordered a stop to such cartel practices as: ¶ Dividing the world into noncompetitive markets. ¶ Restricting production. ¶ Fixing prices...
...Orleans businessmen, with eyes cocked toward Latin America, have already plunked down $200,000 to buy two adjoining buildings in the business district, pledged themselves to plunk down $750,000 more to remodel them into a slick, air-conditioned home for a new International Trade Mart. Object: a year-round display of Mississippi Valley products...
...York's Communist Daily Worker characterized the delegates in its own unique way, thus: Quo-"slick." Byrnes-"a small, crabbed . . . blinky, tight, screwed-up face . . . the sense of his words was sinister nonsense." Ala-"the little adventurer." Lange-"a serious, charming and humane individual." And as for Gromyko-"this face is full of strength . . . spoke always without anger, but with logic and force, and quiet determination...