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Word: alling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In today's market, where 90% in cash must be put up to buy stocks, put and call options have a new allure. They enable speculators to maintain a position in stocks for as little as 5% of the stock's market value at the time of purchase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Put, Call & Win | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Since 1950, Machines Bull has had a contract to sell in the U.S. under the trade name of Remington Rand. But sales never amounted to more than $3,000,000 a year. The company believes it can readily market $40 million worth of its computers and other equipment under its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Bull Market | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Greenough was not the only one surprised by the board's action. Previous top candidate for the job: Greenough's own boss, James P. Newell, 57, vice president of operations. Greenough had not been considered in the running. But railroadmen gossiped that other vice presidents were scrambling so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Schedule Change at the Pennsy | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

What did not happen on Thursday? Well, LeRoy Goss missed the 8:09 New York local from Bronxville. Any doubt that the train may have left is banished by a well-preserved photo of the empty tracks of the New York Central (looking south). Later that day the hapless Goss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Spoof to Remember | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Life with father was sometimes all beer and no victuals. The meticulous Stanislaus once calculated that John Joyce was roaring drunk 3.97 days a week. At such times, Papa would reel home in a vicious temper, flail away at any child within reach, and snarl, "I'll leave you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dublin's Prodigal Son | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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