Word: optionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have total assets-of more than $250 million, more than 3,400 producing oil and gas wells, and big leases in the promising new oil pools-Texas' Scurry County and Canada's Alberta fields. Floyd Odium himself thought enough of Sunray's potentialities to keep an option (until Dec. i) to buy 750,000 shares of its common stock at 12, about where it was last week...
...saved his money, in 1930 opened a dry-cleaning shop. He sold it, got an option on a downtown corner, talked the Sinclair Oil Corp. into putting up a gas station for him. He soon had a second. He made the two pay $1,000 a month. But he burned for great wealth; though the Depression was at its deepest and oil was down to 10? a barrel, he began gambling in wildcat drilling ventures. He sank a dry hole, sold one of his service stations, and sank another...
...lost minute of play, Harvard, clinging to a one-point lead, twice waived the free throw option, amid protests from Cornell coach Roy Greene, to bring the ball in from out of bounds. Both times the Big Red defense was too alert and with ten seconds left to play the Ithacans' lanky center, John Werner, flipped in a layup...
...technical subjects, professors have the option of correcting their own examinations. About 70 to 80 per cent take up the option. After that, it's all up to the student...