Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent weeks a small army of Federal Reserve Board agents has been reconnoitering deep in the territory of Bank of America and Giannini's holding company, Transamerica Corp. (which also controls 40 smaller banks, owns stock in dozens of industrial and insurance companies). Guided by their reports, FRB last week swung its sling. Under a section of the Clayton Antitrust Act that has never been used before, it quietly issued a stern order to Transamerica: show cause why FRB should not order it to end certain "monopolistic" practices. (Transamerica must answer the charges at a closed hearing in November...
Congratulations on the outstanding analysis of the current stock market [TIME, June...
...Europe and the Pacific, also did a wartime stint as an ordinary seaman on a merchant marine tanker. He was defeated for re-election in 1944, after rousing Democrats to cries of "snobbery" and angering many of his own party with his definition of Republicans: "We are the best stock. We are the people who represent the real grit, brains and backbone of America...
...world, as widely known. For almost 50 years "B.B." has been an authority respected above all others. Millionaire collectors have sought him out for merely an approving nod of some new purchase-and paid well for the nod. His theories on tactile values have become a part of the stock in trade of art experts and connoisseurs. His meticulous researches into Italian masters have influenced a whole generation's tourist guides and scholars' volumes...
...estate and a chance at the presidency of B. & B. Far from satisfied that he had proved himself, Ward worked harder than ever to weather the depression, stepped up the pace still more to convert to war production (proximity fuses). Last week the New York Stock Exchange gave him proof that he had made the grade. It listed B. & B. stock on its Big Board...