Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What close-cropped, drawling Sam Husbands, 58, did not mention, but what everybody understood, was that the stock sale would take much of the steam out of FRB's drive to prove Transamerica a monopoly. Though Transamerica officials insisted that the stock sale was only "coincidental" to FRB's prosecution, it looked like a shrewd coincidence engineered by Sam Husbands...
...which would give the board greater regulatory powers over bank holding companies that control more than 15% of the stock of an operating bank. Once Transamerica's holdings in Bank of America are reduced to 11.1%, it could argue that FRB should not be concerned with Transamerica even though the 11.1% might still be working control...
...Trollope came prepared to appraise and evaluate the Union: it never occurred to her that from the moment she landed (at New Orleans) she herself would be the one to be roundly devaluated. To begin with, it was a "singular" shock to find that though every man jack of her American fellow travelers on the Mississippi chewed tobacco, reeked of whisky, ate with a knife and grabbed for the table "viands" with "voracious rapidity," one & all had apparently "arrived at high rank in the army...
Soon things begin to go oadly for Johnny. Chiseling financiers drive Kessler out of the fabulously successful company, then begin to edge Johnny out. The man-eating Dulcie beds herself with every available partner in Hollywood, though somehow Johnny does not learn what is going on until he sees the evidence with his own eyes. But in the end, as the reader may confidently anticipate, Johnny is redeemed by Kessler's kindness, the incredible wealth of a generous Italian banker for whom Johnny worked in his youth, and Doris Kessler's chin-up plea that he remember...
...Blocking, of which there was none too much. Though most of the missed blocks can be attributed to a baffling Dartmouth defense which clouded the offensive assignments, there were still numerous examples of blocks, especially in the open field, which were missed cold...