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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down & Up. As rumors spread on Bay Street that the Toronto Stock Exchange would probably suspend Chatco, the speculators sold thousands of shares short, figuring that the suspension would knock down the price of Chatco as it did Great Sweet Grass Oils only three weeks before (TIME, Nov. 5). But the short sellers made one big mistake: they failed to realize that Chatco has only 160,000 shares outstanding. Shannon owned about 36,000 shares, and the Leonhardt interests a big chunk of the rest, leaving few shares around for trading. When the suspension was announced, the stock dropped from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Wolf Trap | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

Todd has never had a hit of such potential dimensions. Having gotten Around the World, he is now sitting on top of it. His plans? Says the man who is pushing 50 as if he intends to knock it over: "As soon as the excitement dies down, I'm going to have a nervous breakdown. I worked for it, I owe it to myself and nobody is going to deprive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...mildest of men. End Coach Bob Devaney, a relatively soft-spoken taskmaster from Alma (Mich.) College, works patiently with backs practicing pass defense. Eyes flitting from side to side like a bingo player handling three cards, Halfback Red Kowalczyk backpedals frantically between two receivers, reaches up in time to knock down a pass. " 'At's the way to go," Devaney shouts. A moment later Kowalczyk is out in the flat, trying to keep an eye on a man gone deep, trying to guard against a hooking end and also defend his overloaded zone. (Fifty yards away, guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Driving Man | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...launching gear, allowing salvo firing and the range would be something like 150 miles. Accuracy would not be good, but this would make little difference. The cheap, light missiles could be fired in dense patterns like shot from a chokebore shotgun, and each would have enough power to knock out a good-sized city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Little Terrapin | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

Ordered to stop about 500 yards from the bank, John Kuhel saw a jeepload of U.S. military police rounding the corner, and decided on a desperate chance. He raced his motor, pulled the wheel hard left and let out the clutch, hoping to knock Wally off his seat. Recovering his balance almost instantly, Wally instead aimed his gun at Kuhel's head. Two pistol shots rang out. The MPs swarmed about the Kuhel car. Instead of a dead banker, they found a dead gangster-and, in the back seat of the car, a small boy holding in his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Accident | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

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