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...first real job, at 75?? an hour, loading steel onto trucks for a metals firm; he rose to become personnel manager for the same firm at $100 a week. "I got to know the executives," Stein says, "and they were always talking about the stock market. I didn't know what it meant, really, but I became interested." He began to hunt for a job on Wall Street, but without success. "They wanted salesmen, and they said I wasn't a salesman." Through a friend he was finally hired as a trainee at Bache & Co., where he soon noticed that...
...Port Walter in the southern panhandle is flooded by 18 feet of annual rainfall, the wind-dried North Slope is an Arctic desert that gets only four inches of precipitation a year. At Fort Yukon in the vast central plateau region, temperatures plummet from 100° in the summer to 75?? below zero in the winter. To travel from the state capital of Juneau to the outermost Aleutian island of Attu is to span 2,000 miles and four time zones. Yet Alaska has fewer people than any other state: 293,000, the equivalent of Akron...
...Russians have a lead in deployment if not in technology. They have installed a thicket of one-or two-megaton Galosh missiles?perhaps 75???around Moscow after giving up on an earlier defense ring in the Leningrad area, presumably because of obsolescence. Although no one can be sure of its intent, the Kremlin has reportedly planned a $25 billion program that would buy more than 5,000 Galoshes. U.S. intelligence has assumed that Galosh is an inferior missile supported by relatively old-fashioned mechanical radars and hence of no major concern to the West at present. Recently, though, Defense Secretary...
...know what a drag that was." His father returned to the South alone to recover from a long illness, leaving Monk's mother, a sternly correct civil servant, to work hard to give her three children a genteel polish. At eleven, Thelonious began weekly piano lessons at 75?? an hour...
...Ruberoid Co., which has not missed a dividend since 1889. announced a 25¢ regular, a 25¢ extra. Ingersoll-Rand, makers of compressors and pneumatic tools, had $2 a share extra for stockholders. So did Draper Corp. of Hopedale, Mass., manufacturers of automatic weaving machinery. Hercules Powder's extra was 75??, Scott Paper's 25¢. Sunshine Mining Co., with 14 Idaho lead and silver mine claims known as the Yankee Boy and Yankee Girl groups, had 4¢ extra to add to a 16¢ dividend...