Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swap. In Tacoma, Wash., safecrackers burgled a meat market, took $450, left a ticket to the policemen's ball...
...result of mismanagement, the ultimate return from sales of surpluses abroad will be only a small fraction of their original cost to U.S. taxpayers. The committee was well aware that the shortage of dollar credits was the chief bar to selling surpluses. So why not swap surpluses for raw materials or other property (embassies and consulates) which the U.S. wants...
Hermann Göring had small taste for the French impressionists, even as loot. But he never let his taste stop him from grabbing anything that had swap value. Last week in Florence, nine impressionist masterpieces worth close to $1,000,000 turned up; Göring had got them from Jewish collectors in France, traded them in Florence for Italian Renaissance masters...
Woody went straight to West Point's football coach, Lieut. Colonel Earl Blaik, and found a sympathetic ear. After boning, he passed his qualifying exams with 100 in math. Colonel Blaik found a Georgia Congressman who was willing to swap Woody's Congressman a current vacancy for one the following year. By this time it was the eve of Woody's 22nd birthday, when he would become too old for West Point entry. There was still no official notice of his appointment. Gambling on the chance that it had been sent direct to West Point, Woody...
Last week Tigrett was in Manhattan dickering with the bondholders' protective committee of the Alton. He got the committee to agree to swap $45 million of Alton 35, due in 1949, for $23 million of G.M. & 0. 4% income bonds, and 328,787 shares of common stock...