Word: dime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shredded Feat. In Metropolis, Ill., Carl Bock, 19, held up Fitch's Dime Store, got away with a bag full of cash, was fleeing through a parking lot when his pistol fired into the bag, scattering money in all directions...
...corn-belt Edison. Inventor Behlen, a man given to loud sport shirts and a pink Cadillac, made a gross profit of exactly $194 his first year in business in 1940; last year he earned $3,309,000 by ceaselessly following a simple inventor's rule: "Ideas are a dime a dozen-it's doing something with them that counts...
...little girl in Cleveland, my mother was calling on Grandpa John D.'s neighbor and, over the back fence, told John D. that my birthday was the same day as his, July 8. With no hesitation, he reached in his pocket and handed my mother the enclosed dime. I now want to return it to Grandson Nelson for his campaign fund, and wish him luck and success...
...Dime. Day after the Fed's announcement, industrials moved up again. At week's end the rally sent industrials up 6.25 points to set another historic high at 546.36. The week's daily average volume of 4,880,514 was the highest for any week since July...
Blue chips were the chief gainers in the market rise, but many a less distinguished stock chalked up impressive gains. The week's most active stock was Studebaker-Packard. Though the company has not earned a dime in four years, its stock gained if for the week, largely on the strength of a recapitalization program approved by stockholders at midweek. In two months Studebaker's stock has doubled its value...