Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plains there was hay in plenty-if it could be gotten to the herd. But cattle (which, unlike sheep, refuse to eat snow) were dying of thirst as well as hunger. The cold froze their eyes, feet, scrota and udders. It also threatened next year's stock-weakened cows and ewes would be unable to produce calves and lambs...
...have lost the confidence of the people. We are the subject of ridicule on every street corner. We are the laughing stock, because we didn't fight. If we endorse that campaign, the party will just evaporate from any position of importance in this country...
Lyons reminds the journalistic profession that its stock with the reading public has fallen far. "It will take a chastened and informed effort to restore it," he declares, adding, "in very few spots is there any evidence of such an effort or even a recognition of its need." Reporters forfeited their function to the crystal-gazers. Worse, those newsmen who doubted the certainty of the polls "failed to express their doubts, partly by their intoxication with the accepted certainty; and partly, one may suspect, because they doubted that their papers would welcome a dissenting report...
...taste for "helicopters and such things," and he liked the blueprints showed him by McDonnell, a crack designer who had once worked for Glenn L. Martin. When they parted, McDonnell had $40,000 of good Rockefeller cash and Rockefeller had 4,000 shares of highly speculative preferred stock. The deal helped McDonnell to build his second-floor engineering office into St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft Corp., which during the war made 7,000,000 Ibs. of airframes, and last year earned a $1,600,000 net profit on $20 million in sales...
...though the value of his original stake had tripled, tall Laurance Rockefeller (whose Princeton '32 classmates voted him most likely to succeed and third "most pious") was not sure how long he would keep all of his McDonnell stock. The paradoxical reason: the once risky McDonnell bet now looked too safe & sound. As head of Rockefeller Brothers, Inc., a unique research and investment house, Laurance and his brothers are only interested in enterprises that offer genuine risk. When the companies are well established, the brothers think most of their money should be taken out for other speculative ventures...