Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publisher of Stage magazine, bought Theatre Arts (circ. 30,000), a Variety for highbrows. He invited MacArthur to run it. O.K., wired Mac, on 20 conditions (samples: get me twelve geniuses, move the office to Palm Springs, get Lana Turner as my secretary). He settled for a block of stock...
Under the stimulation of that period of competition, the CRIMSON built up large enough profits to expand its Massachusetts Avenue facilities still further. But the editors were still unsatisfied, and in 1899 they culminated their editorial campaign in favor of the Union by moving in, lock, stock, and linotype, after turning down several other likely bids...
...more information. New York's Attorney General Nathaniel L. Goldstein got into the act: he had a clue. The figures 625, he said, if ticked off on the alphabet, read FEE. That corresponded to the Follansbee ticker symbol: FEE. The Securities & Exchange Commission and the New York Stock Exchange were also looking into the deal...
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...
...deal was off and Follansbee stockholders were badly shaken. The stock had fallen nine points-and almost $2,000,000 in paper profits had vanished...