Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wall Street's golden bull added still more muscle last week. Shrugging off a nip at margin accounts by the Federal Reserve (see below), the U.S. investor drove the market to still another historic high. Led by some of the nation's biggest corporations, stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average rose to 637.04 at midweek. By the final gong at week's end, profit taking had clipped only 2.51 points from the mark to put the weekly gain at 13.17 points...
...purchasing securities," the Federal Reserve Board last week ordered new regulations to curb stock market credit. The Fed kept its basic rule that investors must put up 90% cash on new stock purchases. It added new provisions, effective June 15, to cover accounts in which stocks were bought on margin before the present margin rate. Formerly, if an investor sold stock, held on a margin below 90%, he had to use only 10% of the proceeds to pay off his debt to the broker. Now he must apply 50% of the proceeds. One exception: if the investor sells his stock...
...Catholic. Only 47% of all voters can identify Kennedy's religion, and even fewer Protestant voters (42%) know that he is Catholic. In his most recent tabulation, without reference to religion, Gallup found that Kennedy led Vice President Nixon in a straw vote by the comfortable margin of 57% to 43%. By deducting from the totals those voters who say they will oppose a Catholic under any circumstances, Gallup evened the odds: Kennedy, 50%; Nixon, 50%. But he had a final word of statistical encouragement for Kennedy: if Kennedy counts those Republican Catholics who would jump fences to vote...
...Canadian referee issued to the Crimson a total of 15 penalties, one of which resulted in the Nomads' margin of victory. The Rugby Club president Bill Morse said after the game that the official, although certainly not partial to Toronto, interpreted the rules in a manner to which the Crimson was unaccustomed...
...field events crew fared slightly better. DeKiewiet won again in the high jump, Jim Doty triumphed in the hammer, and Carl Pescosolido took the javelin. Blodgett got over 13 ft., 4 in. to win the pole vault. Yale's final margin was a decisive...