Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room" (the greenhouses at Trianon alone held 2,000,000 pots). At her town house in Paris, she thought nothing of taking "a big bite into the Champs Elysées for her kitchen garden" (it would have been much bigger if Parisians had not burst out in a storm of rage). The secret police were in her pocket. In affairs of state, "nothing was decided without her knowledge"; in the Seven Years' War (in which France lost her Canadian colony and most of her money), La Pompadour was responsible, as Critic Cyril Connolly says, for "aligning her country...
...city room of the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 391,890), nothing stirs up a storm faster than a half-told story. Three years ago Veteran City Editor Sam Armstrong got just such an incomplete story from the wire services. The Air Force, said the story, had received no acceptable bids on an $11 million construction job for nearby Scott Air Force Base, although similar work was going ahead on air bases all over...
...Storm No. 1. The storm first struck when the State Insurance Commission disclosed that Houston's big, two-year-old Lloyd's of North America was operating at a $427,000 deficit. After looking into Lloyd's books, the commission decided that the company had been "utterly and hopelessly insolvent from its inception." It found that Ralph W. Hammonds, an ex-Olympic wrestler (1928), had borrowed $20,000 to start Lloyd's, added $20,000 of his own, sold more than 50,000 policies his first year, and paid back his loan with part...
...Storm No. 2. Hardly had the dust settled when a storm broke around another big company, the bankrupt Texas Mutual Co. Two appeals court justices accused Texas Mutual of "Ponzi-like manipulations" and called the State Insurance Commission guilty of "fraud if not criminal laxity" for not doing anything about it. Texas Mutual was organized in 1949 by Leslie Lowry, ex-mayor of Beaumont (ousted by recall), and his brother Paul. They started with $500 of their own cash and $19,500 borrowed. To expand their assets, said the court, the Lowry boys bought (with notes, no cash) a shabby...
...Storm No. 3. The third storm broke around two El Paso firms, United Lloyd's and United World Life. At the companies' bankruptcy suit, it developed that ex-Texan Spencer L. Treharne (who is now living in New Mexico) got his license to start United Lloyd's on $55,000 borrowed from an El Paso bank and $5,000 of his own. The suit brought out that Treharne also took over a piece of real estate his father had just bought for $30,000 and wrote it up to $322,000. United Lloyd's wound...