Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clerking in the office of Paducah's famous old Judge William Bishop (fictionalized as Judge Priest by Paducah's other famous citizen, Irvin S. Cobb). Law led to politics, and in 1905 Barkley rambled through McCracken County on a one-eyed horse, stopping at every farmhouse to swap stories and get himself elected county prosecuting attorney. The next jump (in 1909) was to county judge, and the next (in 1912) was a stump campaign for good roads. It landed him in Congress...
Last week, with his auto plant shut down, 65-year-old Powel Crosley finally threw in the towel. In a stock swap, he turned over 317,077 shares (58% control) to Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co. for the equivalent of $63,400, or 20? a share. (Crosley stock, traded on the Curb, promptly fell nearly a point to 1½.) In partial payment of his $3 million loan, Crosley will keep $1.5 million worth of plant real estate, which he will lease back to the rubber company; the balance of the loan will be paid off with stock...
...approval by stockholders of both companies, said Nichols, Mathieson Will buy up E. R. Squibb & Sons, $100 million-a-year maker of household drugs, whose brown-labeled bottles and boxes have been standard equipment in medicine cabinets all over the U.S. for nearly a century. If the stock swap (five Squibb shares for three Mathieson shares) is approved by stockholders as expected, the resulting company will be a $300 million giant, sixth biggest chemical company...
...Greek art." She lives among the "beach bums," the has-beens and would-be's of Hollywood. Mollie becomes Mike's "protege" in a sun-decked beach house on Cortez Beach ("better than Malibu"). Mike figures he can mold Mollie into another Garbo. Between picture takes, they swap dialogue. She: "That moon looks low enough to bite." He: "I have got a terrible yen for you. It's like a stomach full of broken glass." When words fail him, Mike swabs beach-tar stains off Mollie's feet and kisses her "long thin toes...
...heads for a guru (Hindu wise man) as soon as she hits Calcutta, and they swap profundities. She: "How can one know the time?" He: "You cannot know until it has come." She: "The readiness is all? But I am ready." He: "Then you cannot have long to wait." This kind of talk is a bit heady for Liz and she experiences darshan, "a certain electro-magnetic flow...