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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aircraft (down 24%), auto (down 18%), oil, railroad, heavy-machine stocks took a bad licking last year as investors switched into defensive issues such as utilities, food, tobacco and finance companies. Yet, when the selling was heaviest, many a coolheaded investor decided that the news was not that bad and started buying again. Since then, the market has seesawed cautiously higher: stocks on the Dow-Jones average ranged between 438 and 451 in January; 436 and 458 in February, closed at 453.04 last week, 33.25 points above the October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Morning After | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...forcing bandleaders to come to him. M.C.A. bandleaders who became unruly found themselves with poor bookings. Later he developed other sidelines-sold liquor to nightclub owners as part of the deal for a band, sold his musicians insurance, real estate and cars. He also became a successful stock market investor, bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1936, still holds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: 10% of Everything | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...rich, not from his plays and histories but because he was a shrewd investor who "would rise from a sick-bed and travel across France, if he saw a good profit to be made." Château Cirey in Champagne was tumbledown; to restore it, Voltaire put his credit at the disposal of Emilie's husband-who, in turn, put his wife and Château at the disposal of Voltaire. History does not show a more foursquare example of the eternal triangle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sages of Cirey | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Across nine states, from Texas to Iowa, some 1,300 gas stations in the next few weeks will break out in a bright new color scheme-the shiny blue-and-white gas pumps of a bustling Belgian-born newcomer, American Petrofina. The first major foreign investor in U.S. oil since Shell, Petrofina has grown from only a plan on paper to $100 million in assets in less than two years, now feels strong enough to put its own "Fina" brand name on the gas stations it has picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Belgian Invasion | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Smith has been Merrill Lynch's operating boss for more than a decade, directing a huge supermarket of finance that now handles 12% of the New York Stock Exchange's public round-lot volume and 20% of its odd-lot trading, and has serviced 450,000 investor-clients in the past three months alone. A shrewd New Englander from South Hadley Falls, Mass., he attended Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., went from Amherst ('16) to a $7-a-week runner's job in the fledgling Merrill Lynch Co. with a burning conviction that the brokerage business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: S. for B. | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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