Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woke her husband and three children in the dead of night to tell them about it. When the news reached Australia, electric carillons pealed in Sydney and Melbourne. Next morning, in London, the bells of St. Paul's, Westminster and many another church rang out in clangorous rejoicing. Stock-exchange members stopped their trading to sing God Save the King', the official 41-gun salute decreed for the birth of a royal heir boomed forth from the Tower of London and Hyde Park. Even in Norfolk, Va., Britain's battleship, Duke of York, fired an extra...
...sell or trade players at will. Wealthy clubs had taken to buying up promising hooters, not to play but to sit idle on the bench. A fortnight ago, the players put on a token strike. At exactly 3:45 p.m., in every stadium in Argentina, all players abruptly stood stock-still for one minute, then went on with the game...
Near the top in below-ground joints is the Plaza Bar, moderate in price and crowded to the door. The intimate atmosphere is the stock-in-trade of the Bella Vista, which has no dancing...
President Truman had thundered about the "privileged Wall Street gluttons." The "gluttons" last week looked more like frightened rabbits. As the G.O.P. defeat* became certain early Wednesday, panicky stockholders jammed the wires with orders to brokers to sell. By the time the New York Stock Exchange opened at 10 a.m., sell orders so far exceeded buy orders that initial transactions on many key stocks were delayed for as long as three hours...
...Bark. There was no doubt that the stock market, which had been as certain as everyone else of a G.O.P. victory, was panicked by all the Democratic talk of stand-by price controls, an excess-profits tax, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, and demands for wage boosts from tough, confident unions backed by a labor-minded Administration (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But calmer businessmen recalled that it was a Democratic Congress which had let OPA die, that President Truman had approved the repeal of the wartime excess-profits tax in 1945, and that wage boosts were bound to come anyway...