Word: alcoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beam their shows at the all-important mythical twelve-year-old mind. There are exceptions of course: "Twentieth Century," a new documentary series, is one. The Prudential Insurance Company recently cancelled a commercial so that the effectiveness of a dramatization of Winston Churchill's life would not be impaired. ALCOA and U.S. Steel are disinterested sponsors who usually do not attempt to interfere with the program...
...greatest bull market of all time weakened and fell in the last three days to end the week at 433.83 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, the lowest point in 2½ years. All told, 263 stocks, among them such blue chips as Du Pont, General Motors and Alcoa, reached new lows for the year...
...soft spots and vacation shutdowns, the long holiday weekend and other normally depressing factors. In the kind of selective trading that has become the trademark of 1957's bull market, investors sent International Business Machines up 21 points in two days to a new high of 358; Alcoa went to 101 for a 21% gain over the year's low, Revlon to 32 for a 34% gain; while California's Superior Oil jumped 145 points in four days to $1,695. All told, stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average wound up the week 13.60 points higher...
...Among them: Alcoa's I. W. Wilson, Armco Steel's R. L. Gray, Armour's F. W. Specht, Crucible Steel's Joel Hunter, Firestone's Raymond C. Firestone, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Jr., Motorola's Robert W. Galvin, Radio Corp. of America's John L. Burns, Tidewater Oil's D. T. Staples, Westinghouse's Gwilym A. Price...
...program had been going to hell all season. The passing of Robert Montgomery Presents is lamentable not only in light of its past glories but because it reflects the sudden high casualty rate among" TV's live dramatic shows. Others canceled for next season: the Kaiser Aluminum Hour, Alcoa Hour, Goodyear Playhouse, Armstrong Circle Theater and Lux Video Theater. Among the reasons: the best of the TV-bred playwrights are spending more time working for Hollywood; sponsors have been trying to play it safe with "surefire" subjects and scripts. ¶ Arthur Godfrey, by now widely regarded as something installed...