Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...push up the price the company must also raise the dividend. After a two-year study, C. Austin Barker reported in the Harvard Business Review that 75 companies that split their stock and raised the dividend quickly gained 18% in price over and above the rise in the market, held the gain six months later. But a group of 13 companies that split their stock without raising dividends temporarily gained only 5% in price, dropped back 8% below the market level by the end of six months. Nevertheless, in a rising market lower-priced, split stocks tend to move faster...
...supply of stock to keep up with corporate growth. Otherwise, as institutions have stepped up their buying of blue chips, the supply of stocks would have become so short that the price would have climbed far above the level that the public could afford. IBM would scarcely be widely held if it had not had many splits; one share today would cost more than $17,000. Thus, by seeking out new stockholders by splits, U.S. industry is making people's capitalism one of the major sources of strength in the U.S. economy...
...when Vice President Richard Nixon presented the trophy last week, Dr. Carlsen had no hands to receive it. Nixon held it while, with good poise on her crutches, she made an apt acceptance speech...
Following renovation of the structure, a special ceremony will be held in October in the Hall to commemorate the anniversary of the President's inauguration. A tablet on the building will then bear a reminder that the hall is no longer New Lecture Hall...
Usually two professors and no more than 14 undergraduates attend the gatherings, which have been held twice weekly for several weeks. No special dinners are prepared, but students and guests meet before dinner for sherry provided from the House's Ford Foundation funds by Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House...