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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wool for higher prices," it briskly warned. "Finish selling wheat. Prices are at their peak." As always, the features were gingham-crisp; "New Pay-Offs with Plastic Mulch," "How to Sell Bulls for 30% More," and "Need Bees? Make a Bed for 'Em." The farmer's wife got a new recipe for Danish raspberry pie, and the farmer's daughter learned that if she had light brown hair she should use clear red or red-orange lipstick. For the small fry, the Farm Journal ran plans of a hobbyhorse with a body fashioned from the oil filter...
...they got ready to bargain on a new contract, steelmakers and union seemed well aware last week that there will be a third man at the table: the public. Both sides were firing off statements designed to win friends and influence people. United Steelworkers President David McDonald, who had rejected the steelmakers' request that he freeze wages, demanded that the steelmen freeze prices for the life of the new contract, and still give 500,000 steelworkers higher wages and benefits. This would be "justified," McDonald argued, by the industry's heavy profits (see below) and the rising productivity...
...taken by General Motors Corp. Chairman Frederic G. Donner in 1958. Donner got $373,508 in salary, fees and bonuses v. $442,500 in 1957. Ex-President Harlow H. Curtice got $354,585 last year, $266,515 less than...
...year ago, when American Motors was seesawing between 11 and 14, Tabell noticed what he calls a "strong technical pattern," predicted an "upside potential" of 34 if the stock got above 14. When it did rise, leveling off around 34, Tabell's chart showed a new potential of 44. American Motors sold as high as 43⅜ by January, then slid back to 25½ before climbing back to 38¼ last week. Tabell admits that charts are far from infallible; often two chartists will arrive at opposite conclusions. Therefore, when a stock attracts Tabell's attention...
Shackleton never got closer than 60 miles to his proposed beachhead. Clamped in the vise of a null ice pack for ten months, Endurance drifted 1,000 miles northward off the Palmer Peninsula. Finally the party abandoned the crushed wreck and stood on the floe, some 300 miles from land. The men tried dragging boats across the ice in search of open water; they had to quit after two miles. For five more months, they camped in the open, drifting, drifting. There was the sad rite of shooting the dogs, the terror of being dragged off the ice by vicious...