Word: co
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jones & Laughlin stock that Manhattan's Harry Schweitzer bought in 1955 at 38¾ is up to 60¾. His Continental Steel has gone from 33⅜ to 57¼, his Hecht Co. from 29¾ to 42⅝. All in all, the 895 shares in the Schweitzer portfolio were worth $21,000 and represented a handsome $12,000 profit, not to mention Harry's $1,600 savings accounts chunked together from dividends...
...tons of surplus wheat, and the French have signed a $5,000,000 barter deal with him. The British-Egyptian compromise was worked out by World Bank President Eugene Black, the discreet and yam-voiced international civil servant from Georgia who also helped the Suez Canal Co. settle with Nasser last spring...
JOHNS-MANVILLE CORP. (1957 sales: $308 million) purchased Libbey-Owens-Ford subsidiary L-O-F Glass Fibers Co. (1957 sales: $23 million), second only to Owens-Corning Fiberglas in the industry, for stock worth $58 million...
...Budd Co. (automobile brake drums, wheels, etc.) will move out of the red and show a 1958 profit because of a "greatly improved fourth quarter...
...Nowadays it is precisely the twisted fruits of humanity-as plucked from the tree of American life by such as Eugene O'Neill, Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams-that command the commercial market, leaving the rosy, chubby ones to go hang. Indeed. Author Herlihy (a TVeteran and co-author of last season's Broadway near miss, Blue Denim) might seem to have arrived in the twisted-apple orchard a decade too late. But in the seven short stories of this collection, he shows a talent that is not only twisted but robust, humorous and original as well...