Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense, Wall Street is now paying for the success of its campaign to recruit small stockholders. Once a stockholder has an account, the high-priced blue chips that he first bought may seem pretty stodgy beside the greater gains possible in more speculative companies. He knows that top growth companies such as Polaroid and Texas Instruments, which have increased several hundred percent in a few years, were once considered risky. Says Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston: "We have no objection to people buying into small and little-known companies-provided they know what they are doing...
Corporations happily supply information to security analysts and customers' men, whose firms turn out some 50,000 market letters annually. Public-relations firms are hired to plug a firm to the public. Their performances are often judged on how high the publicity pushes the stock...
...High-Price: Cadillac 62, 19.0352 m.p.g.; Chrysler Imperial Custom,18.2027 m.p.g.; Lincoln, 17.2739 m.p.g...
Dave Bohn's stiff neck deprived the Crimson of a few goals they might otherwise have received. Bohn, high scorer on the varsity, was unable to make backhand shots or turn his head quickly to see the ball...
...most disappointing aspect of the film is that it dispels the illusion that there was a golden age of comedy. The high points may have been classic, the conventions legendary, the faces immortal, but even these excerpts show an astonishing puerility and lack of invention. The only nostalgic portion for the younger generation is the appearance of Will Rogers, who is able to bring wit even into the silent film...