Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some girls shave their legs. Others melt down some candle wax, splash it on, let it cake, and chip if off, Saves blades, they explain...
...sending a representative to the Business School course something a firm will do on a whim. It's so expensive, in fact, that most of the A.M.P.'s come from "blue chip" firms which can afford to lose an important executive, pay his salary while he's absent (they are invariably over $10,000), and pay his expenses at the Business School, which amount to between $1,500 and $1,800 for the 13-week period. The tuition fee alone is $800, and the executives also have to pay $15, $225275, and $350 for medical fee, room, and food respectively...
Less spectacular, but more impressive to traders, was the performance of blue-chip General Motors, which gained 1⅞ points to set a new alltime high at 99⅞. Chrysler did even better, gained 3½ points. Since the market had now broken through all previous "resistance points" (i.e., levels at which stocks had been bought at higher prices), beamish Wall Street bulls thought there would be more climbing...
...raft itself was never in serious danger. Outside of a couple of storms, the vast Pacific obligingly lived up to its name. The Kon-Tiki had been built cunningly and rode the seas like a chip. "The more leaks the better. Through the gaps in our floor the water ran out but never in." Only once was a crewman in serious danger, when Watzinger fell overboard and was unable to catch up with the raft, which was at the mercy of the current. Haugland jumped in with a life line and rescued him while the other four watched with horror...
...draft). Without waiting to find out what it was, they nervously started to dump their newly purchased stocks. Prices dropped. Hardest hit by the new selling wave were the stocks of television companies; they tumbled as much as 4½ points. In two jittery hours, the blue-chip Dow-Jones industrial index also dropped 2.39 points to 208.59, wiping out all but a small fraction of its earlier gain. As this week's trading began, television stocks again dropped as much as 4¼ points on fears that war might curtail production of TV sets...