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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Will the Market Quiver...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low | 5/9/1968 | See Source »

Given the volatility of the stock market and the tremors shaking the dollar, the art market today lures ever more investors. And Sotheby's of London stands ready to meet the demand. In a three-day sale last week, the world's top auction house knocked down 388 impressionist and modern paintings, drawings, and sculptures, including 34 Picassos, nine Klees, 13 Rodins, nine Légers, seven Pissarros, seven Juan Gris. Total gross: $5,374,479.60, or half again the previous record for a single auction, set by Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries (a Sotheby affiliate) earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market: Onward & Upward | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

Wall Street quite obviously agrees with the prognosis. President Johnson's March peace overtures gave the stock market its sharpest two-week surge in two decades. And last week the market quickly shook off the subsequent dip prompted by the Federal Reserve Board's increase in interest rates. The advance carried the New York Stock Exchange index of all issues traded on the Big Board to a record high of 54.26, up .87 for the week. "The only thing capable of reversing the prevailing psychology," says Analyst Robert T. Allen of Shearson, Hammill & Co., "is a complete breakdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: If Peace Comes | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...profits another 11%. And last week stockholders at American Home's annual meeting in Wilmington, Del., heard even more good news. With final Food and Drug Administration approval at last in hand, American Home will soon be entering the burgeoning (now $100 million-a-year) birth-control market with an oral contraceptive called Ovral. Under development for nine years, Ovral, says the company, is the first completely synthetic steroid birth-control pill; American Home expects it to win sales from the 19 other versions of the pill now on the market, by helping to eliminate unwanted side-effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Millions from Small Packages | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...months: United Air Lines had decided to buy 30 DC-10s at a total price of $465 million, and had taken options to buy 30 more of the huge three-engine planes. The order put McDonnell Douglas back into the thick of the fight for the international airbus market which is expected to reach at least 1,000 aircraft worth $15 billion in the next decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Back in the Fight | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

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