Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...itself some stocks could scarcely be given away. White Sewing Machine Corp., which had reached 48 not long before, had closed at 11 on Monday. On Tuesday someone-some say a messenger boy-suggested a bid of a dollar a share. Since there were no takers, he got a block of it. Reuben Thorson, 77, retired senior partner of Paine Webber, recalls, "The volume was so heavy that the tape was late by hours. We had no idea what the prices were...
...gets older, paunchier and balder, but though few seem to know it, he is still one of the best actors in the business. Then he finds himself in his first Broadway show. It opens, the critics turn handsprings, and that cheeky kid is once more swaggering down the block-Puck in middle...
...microscope that can magnify 20 million times and so can photograph a particle with a diameter of about 4 billionths of an inch. Computers can do 80 million calculations a second (and ostensibly 6.9 trillion a day). Other recent news: a suspicion that the proton, a basic natural building block, may be unstable. It may indeed be decaying at such a rate that it would peter out in a million billion billion billion years. The effect of that notion is finally not mathematical but purely poetic...
...spend 400 pounds to found a college in the area. It was not a hot issue--the motion was the last item on a busy schedule that included prohibiting the sale of lace and awarding five pounds to a sailor who lost an eye while on a voyage to Block Island...
...Monday the alliance and a coalition of other anti-nuke groups plan to block the opening of the New York Stock Exchange 50 years after the Crash. The "Manhattan Project" demonstrators plan to cordon off the doors of the exchange to prevent brokers from entering the building and trading the stocks of the 66 corporations active in nuclear energy...