Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counter criticism that the system would also paralyze international trade because of the global shortage of gold, champions of the gold standard advocate another step that they consider necessary: to double or triple the $35-an-ounce price of gold, thus vastly increasing the monetary reserves that finance world trade...
...Alexa Stirling when each won the women's national golf championship. I reminded them that they gave a big welcome to Atlanta's war heroes too. Dr. King, I told them, was being honored as a Nobel prizewinner, not because he sat down at a lunch counter or picketed over in Selma...
While the New York Stock Exchange continues to show gains, a much broader but less-known market is rising even faster. Last week the National Quotation Board's index of over-the-counter stocks closed at a record 192.37, up 8% for the year so far, v. a 3½% rise for the Dow-Jones. Last year the OTC index jumped 23%; the Dow-Jones advanced...
Most of the 7,000 issues traded daily over-the-counter represent companies that are not sufficiently large, seasoned or profitable to be listed on the major exchanges. But the OTC index of 35 stocks includes such mighty companies as Anheuser-Busch, Ethyl Corp., Rockwell Manufacturing, Grolier, Eli Lilly and Dun & Bradstreet. They are a remarkably reliable mirror of the entire OTC market: the most recent study showed that the average price of 538 nationally listed OTC stocks gained at a pace that was virtually identical to the OTC index's gain...
Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, a major showcase of American fashion, dangles its price tags on either side of the counter. It is one of the few places where a bright woman with ideas, who is content to wear a costume ring instead of a wedding band, can rise to rule the executive suite. Dorothy Shaver, president of Lord & Taylor until her death at 61 in 1959, was the archetype of the breed. At elegant Henri Bendel, Geraldine Stutz became president at 33, has successfully given her store an aura of yé-yé. Last week able, low-keyed...