Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood had known something of the meteoric Howard Hughes story for two decades. He had always been an independent-a lone wolf, unpredictable and exasperatingly successful most of the time. Now he had stepped into control of a top studio. After trying (characteristically) to get the stock for two points less than the market, he had paid Atlas Corp.'s Floyd B. Odium a whacking $8,825,690 for 929,020 shares...
...hold a wolf by the ears. Nor do I know by what means I can get rid of him, nor how I am to keep him.-Terence
Most U.S. industries last week had a price wolf by the ears. For the cement industry, a way to get rid of him seemed relatively plain. Bowing to a Federal Trade Commission order recently upheld by the Supreme Court (TIME, May 10), Universal Atlas Cement Co., largest cement maker in the U.S., last week grudgingly gave up its basing-point system of pricing. The company called the order "economically unsound and wrong," but it announced that it would sell henceforth at prices f.o.b. its plants; freight costs would be applied to the buyer's bill. Smaller cement companies promptly...
...Philadelphia, Plainclothesmen Frank Wolf and Stephen Chambers spent four months betting on the numbers and horses in order to nab gamblers, made 50 arrests...
...time heavyweight boxing has ever known. After a five-mile run he breakfasts on prunes, two eggs, a lamb chop, tea and toast. Then comes a mile walk, a nap until noon (he eats no lunch) and seven rounds' workout in the afternoon. For supper he does not wolf a 3-lb. steak (as Billy Conn used to), but settles for a smaller one. He looks lighter than his 196 Ibs. Most remarkable about him is the fact that he seems to get better just when most boxers get worse-after...