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Management's need for better stockholder relations is more than just the problem of keeping control. For one thing, confident, well-informed stockholders will hang on to their stock, thus prevent rapid and often damaging speculation. For another, stockholders now form industry's handiest market for 1) raising new capital, and 2) selling its products. Celanese Corp., which had trouble raising $40 million for expansion before it brought out a better stockholders' program in 1947, recently raised $200 million without difficulty, largely from its own stockholders...
...largest lecture room was once a subway car barn, its campus is still the city streets, its study halls are still the handiest park benches. Yet in three lean years, the Free University of Berlin has grown into a vigorous symbol of academic liberty. While its famed pre-Nazi counterpart, in the East sector of Berlin, withers and dies from an overdose of Communist dialectic, the Free University may well become the birthplace of a more widespread liberal education than Germany has ever before attained. Last week the young institution got a generous gift of the one thing it needed...
Whether its Junior Prom or Charity Ball, or even a weekday date, a well-recommended way to a Smith girl's heart is through her stomach. Rahar's Inn, served by popular "Murph," is the handiest, while Wiggins Old Tavern is nice, in a plush fashion. For beer, pizza, and "atmosphere," the girls like Joe's, but the mountain-top Log Cabin or the Sportsman's Club provide a full meal or dancing...
...never been arrested before," he said, as officers went through his pockets before putting him in a cell. "All this is pretty amazing." When the U.S. marshal held up an odd-looking tool he had been carrying, he explained: "That's the handiest gadget. It opens bottle tops and cans and things." He beamed as the marshal answered: "We'd better keep this pocket-sized machine shop. It might open a jail door, too." Before he was led away he said, approvingly: "It certainly is good to know the federal agents . . . and security officers are really on their...
DeCarlo was the kind of sailor who would have given Conrad a Bronx cheer; that is, if DeCarlo had read books. He had sailed a lot, but had really "never traveled." He had "America lashed onto him like a rucksack and he spread it out in the handiest spot." He had smuggled 1,700 cartons of Pall Mall cigarettes aboard ship, and he was going to spread them out on the Bangkok black market. His modest objective: enough cash to start a used-car business back in the States and quit the sea for good...