Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough. Last week, as the Supreme Soviet, Russia's parliament, met in the Great Kremlin Palace Congress Hall to consider the 1969 budget, the country's chief planner rattled off an impressive list of economic achievements (1968 income up 7.2%, industrial production up 8.3%). The 1,510-odd delegates were visibly unimpressed. Instead, they complained bitterly about the shoddy quality of Soviet housing and the poor reliability of farm machinery, which plagues farmers with frequent breakdowns. As Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev looked on, Chairman Nikolai Baibakov, of the State Planning Committee, assured the angry delegates that...
...order of less than $1,000 for a listed stock, or $5,000 for an over-the-counter stock. E.F. Hutton & Co. turns down would-be clients with orders of less than $1,500 for listed stocks, $2,500 for over-the-counter shares, and $3,000 for "odd-lot" transactions of fewer than 100 shares...
...wants to buy 1,000 shares of a $1 stock. On the other hand, if he's got $800 for a blue-chip stock, I'd take that business." Since brokers often act as if they are doing him a favor by accepting his money, the odd-lotter frequently feels like odd man out. "I've only got $2,500 to play with," says Hollywood Electrician Richard Johnson. "I know that's not much. But I've had to change brokers three times in the past year, and each time...
Many brokers contend that it is right because the small investor does not pay his way. James W. Davant, managing partner of Paine, Webber, argues that the cost of handling stock transactions is rising so rapidly that brokerage houses lose money not only on the odd-lot business but also on the average "round-lot" trade of 100 shares or more. "It is unprofitable to serve the investment needs of the small investor," he says bluntly. Brokers make money on the really big trades-and those profits too have been...
...then one thinks of Wilbur, translating with near-perfection the plays of Moliere in their original rhyme and metre (Tartuffe and The Misanthrope), imitating Villon and odd old Provencal poets in a transcription of literary history, cajoling the past into colloquial forms. If anything, it is remembering forgotten languages, not forgetting the few that we so awkwardly remember...