Word: chips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most active blue-chip stocks in the bull market has been General Motors. Its phenomenal 1949 earnings ($14.65 per share) and dividend ($8), plus a good first quarter in 1950, plus the news of G.M.'s five-year contract with the U.A.W., sent it to a 21-year high of 90¾ last week. This week G.M.'s directors took an action which will probably increase the stock's turnover. They proposed that the 43,945,133 shares currently outstanding be split two for one.* If approved by the stockholders, the change would give G.M. the largest...
...rich diet* of blue chip stocks, vitamin-enriched by whopping corporate profits and dividends, he had developed plenty of muscles and a confident look...
...turn had got it from Inventor Pemberton for $1,750. Hardy old Ernest Woodruff was accused by his enemies of every sharp business trick in the book, and suspected even by his friends of chewing broken Coca-Cola bottles to strengthen his teeth. Son Bob is a chip off the old block. The steel of Young Bob's determination early clashed with the flint of his father's will, and the resulting sparks could have lit up Atlanta and environs. Bob quit Emory University and went to work selling fire extinguishers. He did so well that his father...
...would have been easy enough to spot her and stop her. She was only 4 ft. 10 in. tall, wore a long, bright green coat, a firehouse red skirt, flat-heeled loafers and white bobby-sox. But she moved along in street crowds for days, as unnoticed as a chip borne on a flood, and pushed into hospital after hospital without a challenge...
...deadline drew nearer, some California professors got ready to take their cases to court; others began casting about for new jobs. Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago spoke up, urged that professors all over the country chip in 2% of their salaries to aid California colleagues until they landed new positions...