Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...machinery and rolling stock, including a $9,000 combine, two pickup trucks, a 2½-ton truck and three tractors. Helen England raises German shepherd dogs, earned $2,300 last year, and used part of the money to buy new bedroom furniture. They have an automatic washer and dryer, wall-to-wall carpeting in the living room, vinyl tile in the dining room-kitchen, and a TV set. In the busy spring planting time, Frank often rises at 2 a.m. to get a head start in the fields. A hired hand helps out in the spring, and in summer they...
...McDonnell is staking out a bigger claim in aerospace. For more than a year, he has been quietly buying stock in Douglas Aircraft Co., which is more than twice as large as McDonnell Aircraft. Neither he nor Douglas will say how much he holds, but Wall Street estimates run to 200,000 shares, or 5% of the total, worth $4,250,000 at the current market. Since Chairman Donald Douglas Sr. owns only 10,150 shares, President Donald Douglas Jr. only 1,082 shares, and nobody is known to own more than 10% of the stock, McDonnell could easily exercise...
...misappropriating $1,953,000 of the funds of the E. L. Bruce Co., Inc., the lumber milling giant that he had bossed before fleeing last June; twelve New York State charges of grand larceny; a U.S. tax lien amounting to $3,500,000. The erstwhile timber wolf of Wall Street faced up to 194 years in jail. Why then had he returned from extradition-free Brazil...
...Love a Deal." Gilbert had tried his hand at making money down in Rio, but it was all kind of small time after Wall Street. Encountering a fruit peddler on Copacabana Beach, he haggled the price of a few oranges down from 20 cruzeiros apiece to 12. "I just love a deal," said Gilbert. He dabbled in beer stocks, pocketed $5,000 as management consultant to a lathe works, ran his stake high enough to move from dismal digs into a Copacabana suite that he leased from a feminine exile named Simone Delamarr, who had been one of King Farouk...
...went to the sports information office and took an extra program (also puts the covers on her wall, or something...