Übersetzung für '
bucket-shop' von Englisch nach Deutsch
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- The term "bucket shop" is sometimes used to refer to a company that will sell a coat of arms (often referred to by the misnomer "family crest") associated with the customer's surname, regardless of whether the customer can actually claim a relation to the original armiger.
- A bucket shop was an unlicensed tavern in 19th-century London that sold discarded alcohol.
- In 1892, at the age of 15, he bet $5 on Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad at a bucket shop, a type of establishment that took leveraged bets on stock prices but did not buy or sell the stock.
- Sykes had sent a letter to Attorney General Carl Sherman requesting a conference over investigation into "allegations that the Consolidated Stock Exchange was the headquarters of bucket shop operations."
- With his background in the stock and brokerage business, in acquiring the Delmar Investment Company, Tilles operated a bucket shop in the first decade of the 20th century.
- McGee a year or two later and soon became embroiled in a bucket shop scandal in which her husband's firm was accused of bilking some four thousand investors out of millions of dollars.
- By the 1880s, Bishop became engaged in the "bucket shop" business—essentially a betting business based on the stock market.
- In those cases, there is no real brokerage; the customer is betting against the broker, who is acting as a bucket shop.
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