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Word: attractants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corporations try to make sure that their stock will climb from the split level by declaring the move, when possible, during a bull market. They also help the stock to move by splitting it to a price that will attract buyers. RCA was selling in the high 90s when its directors were debating a split; they settled for a 3-for-l division that brought the price per new share down to the 30s-the range at which many experts believe that the public is most attracted to a stock. Other companies feel that for prestige purposes their stock should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Splitting with Pride | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...wants), miles of beaches and a swash buckling past peopled by buccaneers and Prohibition rumrunners. Even to day, one Freeport beer baron still uses his old Chicago sobriquet, "Shotgun John." For the industrialist, there is total exemption from corporate, personal and export taxes, and the kind of environment to attract executive talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bahamas: Offshore Eden | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...Winnie had the money to attract -and buy-an entourage. Her consort was the bogus prince, "Nicky" Sturdza, who was flat broke when he met Winnie at a Paris cocktail party in 1950. She hired him as her escort at $1,000 a month, had his crown and her initials engraved on her handbags, and since he had a flair for designing clothes, Winnie set him up in the Boutique Nicky on Paris' fashionable Faubourg St.-Honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: Room Service in Lausanne | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...Hilton thrown in." Marton intends to spend $50 million by 1970 to build restaurants, motels, supermarkets and processing plants. Last week his program was well under way: four motels and restaurants along the Adriatic coast were nearly completed, and a big advertising campaign was under way in Europe to attract the summer tourists whom Marton counts on to fill them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: Capitalistic Comrade | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...seem poorly prepared to cope with their first experience of trying times. Few trained bankers are in the business; managers often do not know how their association's money is invested, and appraisers often do not understand the subtleties of evaluating mortgage risks. The S. & L.s fail to attract enough bright men partly because the associations have grown faster than their ability to develop sound executives, and partly because they pay notoriously poor salaries. At one of Los Angeles' biggest associations, only one executive-the president-earns more than $15,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Savings & Loan: Growing Pains | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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