Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George is not a mental freak. Nor does he naturally read so fast. He learned this revolutionary technique of rapid reading at the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute...along with more than 5500 other graduates in the Boston Area...
...pork bellies on a $700 investment constitute a surprising cross section of America. A survey of corn futures not long ago showed that, along with the professional speculators, contracts were also held by lawyers (178), clerks and stenographers (122), housewives (339) and students (66). Unfortunately, in a fast-moving market like commodities, most of the amateurs hesitate too long about closing out losing contracts. Another survey, this one of 418,000 commodities transactions, turned up the fact that 75% ended in losses. So strong is the possibility of loss that brokers do not want to do business with women speculators...
...warn against suspiciously speculative activity among professional traders, which Martin finds "disquieting." Last week, as market averages reached new highs, Martin sent up another warning rocket, telling the House Ways and Means Committee that there is "an unwarranted spree in stock prices and a lot of people chasing a fast buck...
...also begun to apply a new treatment to roads and rail lines elsewhere in the North. In the past, U.S. flyers would bomb a road or a bridge in one place, wait until it was repaired and then hit it again. Trouble was that the North Vietnamese became too fast and facile at fixing things up, and transportation continued to move, at least sporadically. Since last spring, the U.S. has used a strategy known as "pursuit-of-a-target system." Now, U.S. flyers seek to make a whole series of cuts in roads and rail lines in a steady round...
Beyond Control? With the 7% investment tax credit plus fast tax writeoff on their equipment, most leasing companies show quick profits in their early years. GC Computer, a Greyhound Corp. subsidiary and largest of the five leasing concerns listed on the American Stock Exchange, reported a 47% gain in earnings last year; the price of its stock jumped from 91 to 41 at one point during the spring surge. Levin-Townsend's earnings climbed mightily in the fiscal year ended in March, and its stock price rose from 12 at the end of December to as high...