Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tournaments the average winning score was eight below par. It took a nine-below-par 279 to win the Masters Tournament at Augusta, one of the toughest tests of golfing skill on the North American continent...
Born 39 years ago, the son of a Philadelphia umbrella maker, James Stokley is a jack of all sciences; puttered with chemistry and photography in boyhood, studied biology at the University of Pennsylvania, took an M.A. in psychology, taught general science in high school, wrote science articles for newspapers. In 1924 he met the late Dr. Edwin Emery Slosson, famed chemistry popularizer, who hired him as a staff writer for Science Service. As a Science Service writer Stokley hopped over to Germany to get his first look at a planetarium. He was thrilled. Since then he has directed two solar...
...relax margin requirements to protect investors; 2) to further ease credit through the Federal Reserve; 3) to put a floor under Exchange prices by setting a limit on each day's fluctuation, such as the Government now does in the wheat market. One precaution Administration leaders took last week was to prod Congress into extending until 1941 the President's powers over the dollar and the $2,000,000,000 exchange stabilization fund...
...career with a $1,500,000 nest egg his father made manufacturing carpets. He has substantially enlarged it by managing two investment trusts, the Investment Corp. of Philadelphia and the Delaware Fund, Inc., and by using his sharp eyes in a number of ways. In 1931, for example, he took a look at Russia's bumper wheat crop, concluded that it would depress the world market, and took a short position in sterling that netted...
...Rubber). In 1929 he got into Western Union, at 240, later bought more. Russell Sage once said that only once in a lifetime did a man have the chance to enrich himself by buying Western Union below $50 a share, and when that chance came, Arthur Flatto took it and held on. Last week he held 1,350 shares of Western Union, selling...