Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twin 18 year-old sisters, students at the School of Boston Museum of Fine Arts, were booked yesterday on charges of assault and battery after a mid-day fight with policemen in the Leverett House Junior Common Room...
...Narcotics addiction is 100 times more common among physicians than the general population, reported Detroit's Dr. J. DeWitt Fox, after analyzing federal statistics. One doctor in every 100 is a present or possible future victim. Main reasons: emotional problems, pressure of work or pain, plus easy access to the drugs...
...Angeles will give it another 900,000 sq. ft. of space. Its physical assets already amount to $16 million, and on sales of $28.9 million last year, R-W netted a healthy $2,716,600. Three more years should see R-W at the $100 million mark. R-W common stock, much of it sold at $2 a share to scientists as an inducement to join the new company, is estimated now to be worth several hundred dollars a share...
...exchange for 3,500 shares of preferred stock (87½%) and 24,500 shares (49%) of Ramo-Wooldridge's common stock, the remainder of which the two scientists kept for themselves and future staffers, Thompson put an initial $400,000 into the baby corporation. Within a week R-W got its first Air Force study contract for a secret project, quickly picked up more such contracts. Three months later R-W was in the black...
...STOCK OPTION plan will set aside 4,000,000 shares for about 250 top General Motors executives over next five years. If stockholders approve, G.M. will allow an executive to take 75% of his present bonus in cash or stock immediately, and company will put aside equal amount in common stock. Executive then could buy optioned stock, for market price at time of option, from 18 months to ten years hence...