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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scramble for shares shows up most clearly in lower-priced stocks, which are more attractive to the public than higher-priced blue chips. When Lehman Bros, brought out its One William Street Fund at a price of $12.50, it got more shareholders in a day than F. W. Woolworth Co. (now selling for about 50) has had at any one time in its history. Last week issues selling for less than $25 a share numbered nine of the week's 15 most active stocks. Rumors of stock splits, and resulting lower prices per share, also sent higher-priced stocks...
Even Japan is hustling to get into the race. Though the industry produced only 42,597 passenger cars last year, automakers plan big things. Toyota Motor Co., which makes a sturdy Toyopet sedan (30 miles per gal.) for $2,222, has shipped 800 cars so far this year, including 150 to Hawaii. Japan's other major producer, Nissan Motor Co., with a smaller Datsun sedan (40 miles per gal.) for $1,762, has sent out another 800 to Hawaii and the West Coast. The reception was so enthusiastic that the two companies see a U.S. market of 500 cars...
Produced by Graham's Private Enterprise, Inc. and sponsored by Ford Motor Co., the show will hear from three contestants a week for three weeks, pick three of them for a fourth program where the winner will get backing up to $25,000. As with small businessmen it has backed abroad, Graham's P.E.I, will split profits fifty-fifty with the winners until they are ready to buy out its share. Graham has already received nearly 300 applications touting everything from a futuristic garage to a fancy vanity tray, is having applicants screened by Wichita's Fourth...
Super-Glue. Eastman Chemical Products, a subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Co., has developed a new adhesive that will glue together almost any combination of substances, e.g., wood and steel, is so strong that a single drop can support a 5,000-lb. car on a rig. Unaffected by heat or cold, the Eastman 910 Adhesive sets rapidly without additives or heating...
Less U, More H. Co-Author Frank's tear-shot camera eye pans in on Sheilah Graham when she was still Lily Sheil, a grimy Cockney moppet of six being carted away to the East London Home for Orphans. The eight orphanage years were Dickensian. Eventually Lily found a job as a skivy (housemaid) but soon chucked it. She had a chance to demonstrate a U-shaped toothbrush ("It fits the inside of your teeth") and her pearly performance caught the eye of U-born Major John Graham Gillam, D.S.O. It was a case of an 18-year...