Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answered the question that for a month had haunted U.S. parents: was the Salk vaccine safe? Answer: no, not under testing procedures so far used. Sebrell admitted that the safety tests originally developed for the 1955 Salk vaccine had proved to be "less than satisfactory," and also that the margin of safety built into the minimum standards was "no longer dependable...
...said the report, did not raise margin requirements fast enough or high enough to stop what the committee called the "unhealthy speculative developments" in the market since late 1954. The two recent 10-point margin boosts (which raised to 70% the amount of cash a purchaser must put up to buy stock) were assailed as too small. The committee questioned whether they had much influence in bringing speculation under control, although there was plain evidence that they had in the way the market has been acting ever since credit was tightened (see below...
...uproar, Bob Young had his way handily when it came to a vote. By 4,889,495 shares to 457,129, the Central's stockholders agreed to pay the bill for the proxy fight, and postponed any decision on cumulative voting by an equally wide margin. Every Central director was re-elected overwhelmingly, and the stockholders also approved a stock option plan for Central President Alfred E. Perlman, by which he can buy 32,000 shares at $19.88 per share, over a period of years, thus stand to net a capital-gain profit of $672,000 (at current prices...
They won a new five-year term with an indicated House of Commons majority of 50 or more seats, against the scant 17-seat margin they had in the last Parliament...
...recent years, as aging (69) President William Mather cut back his own schedule, Vice President Crump shouldered much of the management. He directed the railway's dieselization program, cut costs and built up the profit margin ($27 million in 1954) despite a drop in revenues. Buck Crump has traveled nearly every mile of C.P.R.'s far-flung system, often in the engineer's cab, has a first-hand knowledge of his company's multiple enterprises and is known by sight by nearly every one of his 87,000 employees...