Comstock

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• This paper had been particularly disagreeable concerning the “dividend-cooking” system of certain of the Comstock mines, at the same time calling invidious attention to safer investments in California stocks. Mark Twain: A Biography
• This was the 'Big Bonanza' of the Comstock Lode and the last of them. When Virginia City Was a Mining Town
• Be it understood that the shocking thing which we know as Comstockery, goes back into the centuries for its origin; being, indeed, the perfect flower of that asceticism, which was engrafted on the degraded Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906
• This paper had been particularly disagreeable concerning the "dividend-cooking" system of certain of the Comstock mines, at the same time calling invidious attention to safer investments in California stocks. Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
• Since 1996, the Comstock fund has had a large percentage of its assets in bearish "short" positions, because of concerns over the stock- and housing-market bubbles, says co-manager Charlie Minter , who says the fund should be classified in the bear-market category, rather than with the long-short funds. Do 'Alternative' Funds Deliver?
• Incensed by "lewdness," Comstock worked the halls of Congress and in 1873 got passed the "Act of the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use," otherwise known as the Comstock Act. Harry Potter And The Ministry Of FireBook Burnings: Harry Potter And The Ministry Of Fire
• Over a forty-year career as a smut-finder, Comstock boasted the confiscation of fifty tons of books and four million pictures, as well as four thousand arrests and at least 15 moral deviants driven to suicide.
• +0.40% shares edged up fractionally after the networking company unveiled what it called a "streamlined operating model" designed to simplify its operations and streamline its sales, services and engineering organizations. /quotes/comstock/10y! MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
• The story of the Comstock Lode is a window into an American 19th-century world of anarchic boomtowns, cutthroat capitalism, astonishing engineering feats and westward settlement. A Silver Bonanza in Boomtown Days
• Bowdlerism, named after Dr Thomas Bowdler, has been around longer than Comstockery, named for Anthony Comstock.