Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high hurdles and flat races of 100, 400, and 1,500 meters. He didn't let it ruffle him. When he was not actually competing, rangy (6 ft. 3 in.) Bob relaxed on a blanket, now and then waved to his mother up in the stands. At the end of the first night's competition, Mathias was trailing Irving ("Moon") Mondschein...
...things the Dutch learned to like about the Germans was their zeal for opera. The Germans started a Dutch opera with native singers and musicians and the Dutch loved it. At war's end, they decided to keep it. Last week, at Holland's third annual music festival in Amsterdam and Scheveningen, music lovers saw the decision magnificently justified. The new Netherlands Opera gave as fine a performance of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice as had been heard in years. The cast got a dozen curtain calls and a standing ovation from happy Am-sterdamers and their...
...contributing cause of Redbook's lag was the cautious, nice-nelly journalism of veteran Editor Edwin Balmer, who ruled out illustrations of girls in two-piece bathing suits, printed no fiction in which those who flaunted "the code" came to an unregenerate or glorified end. (By contrast, the June Cosmopolitan features an illustration of a boudoir nude, and captions a sympathetic short story about adultery: "You'll Find It Difficult to Con demn Them as Human Beings.") When Redbook lost $400,000 last year, President Marvin Pierce of McCall Corp. (which also publishes McCall's) decided that...
...they had a fixed capital for investment. As their shares were traded in the open market, the prices did not necessarily reflect the value of the assets they represented ;- in bad times when few wanted to buy, the shares would be well below their actual values. The open-end trust was not invented until 1924, when Boston's Massachusetts Investors Trust was formed...
...this quest has arisen the lustiest, fastest-growing phenomenon in U.S. finance: the investment trust, notably the "open-end" or "Boston-type" trust. Though the ailing securities market in general is barely breathing, the nation's investment companies sold $80 million worth of their own shares in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 26% over 1948. Said Edmund Brown Jr., president of Manhattan's fast-selling Fundamental Investors, Inc.: "May was the biggest month in our history and June was almost as big. Last year's business was around $10,000,000; this year...