Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...service was disrupted by reporters whom Operator Fitzgerald refused to see in person. Shaggiest winners were a Mr. & Mrs. John Unseld, German-born proprietors of an Elizabeth, N. J. chicken farm, who had signed their ticket "Happy Easter." Said Farmer Unseld: "Chickens are more bother than they're worth. Maybe I'll build an apartment house. Maybe I'll lease a farm. Maybe I'll go back to Germany. Who knows what I'll do? I'm entirely satisfied." Winners Vogt, Fitzgerald and Unseld had each sold half interest in their tickets to Sidney...
...good round $32,500,000. At that point Yaleman Garland left Automatic Signal to Professor Fisher, taking off for a land of pure corporate romance. This he populated with no less than 30 companies, the functions of which were even vaguer than their assets. More than $3,000,000 worth of quite worthless stock in one called Public Service Holding Corp...
When a railroad official asked passengers on a train passing through Aberdeen, Scotland if one of them had lost a couple of violins, up jumped Violinist Jascha Heifetz, sputteringly recalled that he had left his Stradivarius and Joseph Guarnerius worth $150,000 in the Dundee station lunchroom. "And did I have the jitters until they arrived by the next train!" cried he afterward...
...Angeles, oldtime Cinemactress Theo Carew, onetime leading lady for the late John Drew, pioneer woman aviator, penniless relict of the Marquis di Marcone, was caught stealing $2 worth of groceries...
Bonds had been soft all week before the deluge of selling orders hit the Government bond section of the New York Stock Exchange. Most of the business in Government bonds is normally done over-the-counter by big dealers, and $10,000,000 worth of trading in Governments on the Stock Exchange is considered a boom day. Last week in what was a grey if not a black Friday the Exchange volume mounted to $23,450,000, biggest day in 16 years...