Word: spreeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Varsity track captain Art Siler ended his athletic career with the Crimson on Saturday with a one-man point-getting spree at the IC4A track and field championship at Randall's Island...
...Startling Reversal. With the money in the bank, taxfree, the Cahills went on no wild spending spree. Around $30,000 went for the attorney's fee. Approximately $40,000 went to pay other bills-hospitals, physicians, the welfare departments-and to buy a car and a small piece of property on which the Cahills started building a $14,000 house. Their only nonessential purchases were a cocker spaniel for the kids and a new coat-her first in three years-for Mrs. Cahill. The remaining $20,000 was the Cahills' money to live on during his three years...
Eugene Meyer took over the decrepit Post and, as he said, "made all the mistakes in the book." He went on a buying spree, snapping up expensive but unsuitable executives, trained seals, special features and the syndicated columns that were then coming into vogue. (To this day the Post runs 15 syndicated columns, from Walter Lippmann to Walter Winchell, more than any other U.S. paper, plus no fewer than 35 daily comic strips.) Once, during his purchasing zeal, Meyer noticed general gloom over the standing of the Washington Senators baseball team. He called in Sports Columnist Shirley Povich and asked...
...would pound anything that would make noise. But by the early '30s bamboo was on its way out-the police had found that the sticks were too likely to be used as weapons. Then Port-of-Spain musicians turned to garbage-can tops and biscuit tins. Someone-maybe"Spree" Simon or Aulrick Springer or "Totee" Lewis-decided to outline the parts of the tin top which had different pitches. He dented a line across, dividing the pan into segments, and found he had two different notes. The establishment of a U.S. base brought the latest refinement: oil drums...
...Wall Street well knew, the fantastic buying spree was more on the magic of Ford than on the intrinsic value of the company. Though Ford is in blooming good health with assets of $2.4 billion, sales of $4 billion, and earnings of $312 million for the first three quarters of 1955, its stock is no better buy than many another security. In the auto industry, for example, Ford's book value of $34.40 per share is about twice General Motors' but less than half Chrysler's $73.30 per share value. On the analysts' price-earning ratio...