Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about spending the long, hot summer in school? Few American schoolchildren would be expected to stay away voluntarily from the softball lot, the beach, the fishing hole. Yet, in Atlanta, where few schools are air-conditioned, almost one-third of 38,000 eligible high school pupils have volunteered this year to stick to their books through the sweltering heat of July and August...
...George T. Henning, 27, assistant to the comptroller of Boston's Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates, agrees. He earns $17,000 and intends to be making $45,000 by the time he is 35. George Woodland, vice president of Milwaukee's Rex Chainbelt Corp., complains: "A lot of these kids are looking at money and not relating it to what they contribute...
Money Wanted. Last week the two firms that handle almost all of the odd-lot trading on the New York Stock Exchange agreed to join forces as "a matter of economic necessity." De Coppet & Doremus and Carlisle & Jacquelin said that their decision was forced by in creasing costs plus dwindling odd-lot trading, which now amounts to less than 10.7% of the Big Board's volume. Other merger plans have undoubtedly been hastened by the tendency of small investors in a declining market to with draw from direct trading and turn their business over to mutual funds and other...
...After the shirts appeared on the covers of Life and Newsweek, we thought a lot of kids would like to buy them if they knew where to get them," Kaplan said. "It's got to sell to someone, it's really cute," he added...
...anyone over thirty. Think of the last few times you tried. Think of the time you tried to tell your parents why you were unhappy and why Harvard made you uptight, and that maybe it wasn't just adolescent growing pains or if its was they were a lot profounder than anybody imagined...