Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When everybody is cautious," runs an old Wall Street adage, "the danger is about over." Last week there were signs that Wall Street investors were beginning to tread softly because of the worrisome speculative fervor of recent weeks. The New York Stock Exchange was so concerned at the rush for low-priced stocks that it asked members to discourage uninformed speculation. Brokers themselves started to boost house margin requirements on lists of volatile stocks. Others took to the newspapers with ads warning small stockholders not to try for quick killings. The effect was like a tonic on a market that...
...capital from a mere $20,000 to more than $2,500,000 today. But though their ventures have been almost uniformly successful, and bigger underwriters have learned how profitable it can be to sign up for one of their undertakings, the partners are a little apprehensive about the current fervor for low-priced glamour stocks. "These days," says Towbin, "anybody with a soldering iron and a piece of wire calls himself an electronics company. We find only one or maybe two really good companies a year...
...through these lines (to Everyday) and half a dozen other numbers. What they were up to was a startling vocal and verbal imitation of instrumental jazz, particularly the big-band style of the 1930s. The whisky drinkers, like the trio's record fans, dug the act with the fervor of a bunch of auto buffs at an antique-car rally...
...youth he fell in love with the beauteous and fragile Catherine Carey; how the pressure of family and circumstance forced him to give her up; how she flirted around in college, then married a quasi-brutish, brilliant and sensitive medical student, Jerome Martell; how Martell, in his masculine fervor, was unfaithful to her, then left her to fight in Spain; how Martell was officially reported tortured and killed by the Nazis; how he, Stewart, at last marries his Catherine; and how, miraculously, the invincible Martell proved that reports of his death were greatly exaggerated and returned only to find Catherine...
...mass rally in Atlanta last week, Southern moderates spoke with a fervor and eloquence they often lack. Said Sylvan Meyer, 37, editor of north Georgia's Gainesville Times: "Our state leaders have failed us miserably. The doctrine of state sovereignty died at Appomattox and was reinterred at Little Rock." His applauding listeners: 1,500 parents, civic leaders and students, members of a brand-new organization of protesting moderates, HOPE, Inc. (for Help Our Public Education) and its student counterpart, SOS (Students for Open Schools...