Word: exchangees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dry Run for the World. For once, Joe Kennedy underestimated himself: he and Rose had a mere nine children-but Joe's fortune is reckoned at more than $200 million. He became general manager of the huge Fore River shipbuilding yard at Quincy during World War I, joined the...
Gluck: Alceste (Kirsten Flagstad, Raoul Jobin; Geraint Jones Orchestra and Singers conducted by Geraint Jones; London, 4 LPs). This version of the opera, which Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck predicted would "please in 200 years," is distinguished by some stunning choral singing and a sumptuous, apparently effortless performance by Soprano Flagstad...
Montini and his helpers concentrated on Milan's 600,000 office, shop and factory workers. He whirled through the Rinascente department store, the stock exchange, three banks. To Sputnik-struck hearers, he praised Russia's technical success, then won a thunder of applause with a blow for the...
The stock market had closed, and the streets of Manhattan's financial district were rain-soaked and half-deserted when word came of the Federal Reserve's decision to reduce its discount rate. Wall Street was caught completely by surprise, but it acted fast. West Coast markets were...
Next morning the rush to buy on the New York Stock Exchange was so great that 1,270,000 shares were traded in the first hour, the heaviest one-hour volume since May 15, 1940, the day after Holland fell to the Germans. Just as prices began to ease, the...