Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small investor is still slowly returning to the market, but, says Eastman Dillon Partner S. Logan Stirling, "he is no longer in the silly stage looking only for new issues." One of the signs of the instability of 1961's runaway bull market was the ridiculous kiting that amateurs gave any new stock that came out. Today each one gets a cold eye, and wild successes are few. One pending exception: Communications Satellite Corp., the first blue chip of space, which last week set the price of its stock (expected to be issued in June) at $20 per share...
...tracing paper. The more they searched the cave, the more paleolithic art they found. In all, close to 80 drawings were scratched into the rock. Among them were six deer, one complete horse and the heads or bodies of five others, an antelope, three handsome and complete bison, a bull, some mountain goats, and a catlike creature. Cavemen, it is believed, made images of the animals they hunted to gain power over them. There was a triangular fertility symbol, and one clearly visible figure of a man, headless, but obviously male...
...young blood" becomes a mascot, especially on a freighter with a small crew, about 60 all told. (The United States would carry over 1200 in crew though it never sails with all hands.) And then, immediately, you begin to hear the troubles of all the older men, and their bull as well. It's easy to become insensate, but finally the brutalities of the life just storm your mind...
...John Madison ("Uncle John") Hoskins, 65, who lost his right foot in a Japanese attack on the carrier Princeton in Leyte Gulf in 1944, seadoggedly battled top brass to return to duty ("Hell, Admiral, the Navy doesn't expect a man to think with his feet," he told "Bull" Halsey), by 1950 won command of the Seventh Fleet's Carrier Division III, whose jet squadrons led the attack in Korea; of a stroke; in Falls Church...
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...