Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...controls on the economy, perplexed by the squeeze on credit and pressure on profit margins. In this emotional atmosphere, such basic and broadly held stocks as oil, drug, retailing, chemical and utility issues generally weakened last week; many popular highfliers in electronics, color television and office machines held fairly firm. But as prices fell, so did trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange-a technical indication that prices may soon rebound...
Riches to Riches. Fairchild Camera was started as an aerial survey firm by an inspired tinkerer, Sherman M. Fairchild, now 69. His rise from riches to riches is an enduring business legend (TIME cover, July 25, 1960). Fairchild's father was the first chairman of Inter national Business Machines and made him by inheritance the largest single stockholder in IBM (167.000 shares now worth $85.5 million). Besides refining his taste for good living and pretty girls, Fairchild tended his investments wisely, personally developed the first plane with an enclosed cabin (the FC-1), manufactured the C-119 Flying Boxcar...
...from a Corning Glass vice-presidency nine years ago with a stock option offer of 23,800 shares (he now owns 52,250 shares worth almost $11 million). Sherman Fairchild withdrew discreetly to the board, has been more concerned with his chairmanship of the completely separate Fairchild Hiller aerospace firm, which recently bought Republic Aviation...
...make money by selling things that are usually available free? Yes, you can. At any rate, James J. Harris, a former salesman for a photoengraving firm, is doing...
Their final achievement record was dramatic. According to standardized tests, the average student gained two years in reading comprehension during those six weeks. After a regimen of a composition a day most could write a decently organized four-paragraph essay. Most had a firm grasp of the basic principles of their next math course presented in the context of the new math. This preview of work to come was especially crucial for several who would be adjusting to previously all-white schools in the fall. The rapidity of this academic development-almost like time-lapse photography in students with...