Word: wildcatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Smoky Mountain Conservation Association presented the President with a young wildcat, with assurances that it was captured in Sevier County, Tenn., "the strongest Republican county in the country in 1924," and that such wildcats domesticated are more friendly than house cats. The President sent the cat to the local...
...last analysis the number of tickets that find their way into the hands of robber barons who run the wildcat agencies depends on: a) the honesty of the theatre treasurers and b) the skill with which speculators "dig" for tickets at the box office through groups of confederates. Mr. Brady himself has admitted that these two sources of conspiracy are hard to squelch...
...invests in a buried bone. A peasant invests in a silver filled stocking. A fool invests in wildcat stock. But a Manchurian War Lord invests in munitions. Chang Tso-Lin, sitting at Mukden, took inventory of his assets. He decided to diversify and strengthen his holdings by new purchases. He prepared for Spring "maneuvers." So he bought a shipload of French munitions. He tried to buy a few warehouses full of Italian arms which were encumbering the vicinity of Peking, but negotiations fell through so he sent to Holland and bought a big shipment of arms that was stranded there...
...insatiable taste for living de luxe. Nobody seemed to know just where she came from, but all her women friends were quite certain of her ultimate destination. So when the Marquis and she, financially ruined and forced to leave Paris on account of the collapse of a wildcat series of projects in which the Marquis had been a dummy director, arrived in the wilds of the Argentine, under the protection of engineer Robledo, a friend of the Marquis' youth, you can imagine what a mellow apple of discord Elena proved...
...comprehensive information service. In addition to newspaper publicity, the Bureau plans to reach the people through banks, Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade, labor organizations, and large mercantile institutions. By thus plugging thus plugging the hole in the dyke, the Bureau will divert millions of dollars yearly from the wildcat whirlpool and gradually drive the "Ponzi" specie of wizard from finance...