Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Utility Investments, Inc. Most of their stock was subscribed at $7.50 a share and they were given options on other big blocks at $12 to $15 a share. Insull Utility Investments opened on the Chicago Stock Exchange at $30 a share, hit $149 before the crash. But Insull Jr. stuck to his story that all this stock was still aboard when the Insull ship went down. Insull Jr. was not asked how much they had salted away against disaster. He strengthened the impression that they lost all. Asked how many of the Insull companies paid him salaries, he said...
...Horn; Roger, after as many farewell performances as an opera star or matador, was finally forced into retirement when a California mob tried to burn him at the stake, crippled him for life. Hugh, once in love with Mary, then with his figurehead, finally with the ship herself, stuck by her even after she was sold into the guano trade, saw the last of her as she sank, burning, into the Pacific. In ten crowded years she had outlived her glory...
...Hutchinson, in pinafore and long golden hair, comes the sense of Alice's constant wonderment. "Off with their heads, off with their heads!" shrills Joseph Schildkraut as the Queen of Hearts. And the Mad Hatter (Landon Herrick) runs about cup in hand with IN THIS STYLE IO/ 6 stuck in his towering headpiece. The Walrus and the Carpenter, two large marionettes, eat little marionette oysters as pot-bellied Tweedledum & Tweedledee recite their poem. The Mouse, the White Rabbit, the March Hare, the Gryphon, the Duchess (''Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes...
Meanwhile he was stuck with two disconnected roads out of the main line of railroad development. The "Big Four" systems grew up and dominated Eastern transportation. The Loree roads, though profitable, were little heard of, though Mr. Loree was heard of: People said he knew more about railroading than any man in the U. S.; his Railroad Freight Transportation is the Blackstone of the subject...
...play which related the high-jinx of a divorced couple who found themselves on respective second honeymoons with decidedly the wrong people. The divorced couple were impersonated by Mr. Coward and the little girl from Miss Conti's, Gertrude Lawrence of the comely back. The playwright still stuck to stichomythy, a tendency reflected in last week's production. Some of his dialog was as bitter and bright as Alice in Wonderland...