Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from $170 to $1,000 in one day. But it was bad enough. In a single day, the stock of E. L .Bruce Co., a small Memphis hardwood flooring manufacturer, jumped $100 a share after the American Stock Exchange ruled that short sellers had to cover their positions on demand...
...inflation: copper, at least, appears on the road to recovery by itself. Though copper stocks of 242,781 tons are still high, No. 1 producer Kennecott Copper Corp. brought its U.S. miners back to a six-day week, announced it was boosting production 15% due to "strong European demand" and the promise of a general pickup at home...
Worn by themselves, tights demand a near perfect figure. Lacking that, many a lass who tries to look like Peter Pan may wind up, alas, looking more like Sir Laurence Olivier playing Henry...
...Phillips, was the injured party. It was Phillips, said Judge Kraft, who had "knowingly, maliciously and intentionally violated" SEC rules by secretly sending telegrams to two Swiss banks in an effort to have the banks withhold their proxies. Only slightly taken aback, Phillips announced that he would appeal-to demand that Pennsy's directors be required to pay from their own pockets the cost of fighting his attempt to get on the board...
...Gordon was a furious enemy of the Catholic Relief Act, passed in 1778 to ease the lot of English Catholics. One June day in 1780 the association met in St. George's Fields, 50,000 strong. After a speech by Gordon, they marched eight abreast to Parliament to demand repeal of the Relief Act, and an onlooker noted that they "had long lank heads of hair, meagre countenances . . . and they uttered deep ejaculations; in short, displaying all the outward and visible signs of hypocrisy and starvation...