Word: fillip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state, make up the bulk of an exciting movie.They involve varied backgrounds (a music hall, a cable car, a river barge) and some sharply written, ably played characters, notably a blonde, half-English entertainer (Glynis Johns) and a scoundrelly smuggler (Herbert Lorn) whose wholehearted cynicism puts a fillip of fun into his every scene. Actor Fairbanks does just as well as the smallest of Gilliat's bit-players, i.e., very well indeed...
...quarterly dividend. This will boost dividends so far this year to $7.75, v. $5.25 for all of 1949. When the New York Stock Exchange rang the gong to open trading the next morning, Chrysler stock shot up 3½ points to 71¼, giving the entire market a fillip. At week's end, investors got more good news: the Senate shelved action on an excess profits tax until next year...
...However, the immediate significance of Hainan's fall was that it furnished further proof that Nationalist troops still could not or would not fight effectively. More than 400 miles to the northeast, in Formosa, invasion day for Nationalist China's last citadel seemed closer. As a victory fillip, the Peking radio reported that Russian newsreel cameramen were filming Lin Piao's conquest of Hainan...
...continues to be the industry with the most dynamic outlook for 1950." Most Wall Streeters seemed to think so too. Day after day last week, television stocks, which have been leading the advancing bull market, skittered up on the New York Stock Exchange, giving the whole list a fillip. Emerson Radio & Phonograph, which had been as low as 15 only 4½ months ago, soared 4⅝ points to 26⅞. Admiral Corp., which jumped from 18 to 29¼ a few months ago and then split its stock two for one, was back up to 23½ again...