Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current earnings. This has caused a sharp change in the "spread"-the difference between stock and bond yields. As stock prices have risen, bonds have dropped (see below); while the return on blue chips has fallen to 3.8%, the best bonds now yield more than 4%. In the past (1929, 1937, 1946 and last summer), when bond yields topped or equaled stocks, big investors went from stocks to bonds, weakening the market. Whether they will do so now depends on how strongly inflation fears continue. But many Wall Streeters see plenty of danger signals. Some views...
...expected to protect the small, supposedly uninformed investor, its margin-raising action was not necessary. The small investor has been doing very well. For the past year the professional traders, large investors and stock specialists have been selling more than buying, in the belief that the market would go lower. But the small investor, as shown by the odd-lot (under 100 shares) records, has been buying more than selling, added a total of 13,679,000 shares to his holdings by midyear. In June many small investors began to cash in their profits. Since then, they have been selling...
...Marrying Sam of the corporate merger business is a Boston pawnbroker's Harvard-educated son named Abraham Malcolm Sonnabend. In the past four years Sonnabend has mated a score or more moneymaking companies with money losers, using the losers' losses as a tax offset against the moneymakers. In so doing, Sonnabend, who learned to wheel and deal as a Boston and Miami real estate operator, has gained control of a hotel, manufacturing and retail empire with 1957 sales of $179 million. Top earners: Hotel Corp. of America with operating revenues of $63 million, Botany Mills with sales...
...work fast because Studebaker's five-year carryover period for tax losses starts running out next year. Last week Sonnabend reported that he had nine prospective bridegrooms with combined earnings before taxes of $30 million a year-more than enough, he said, to offset Studebaker's past losses. Sonnabend was eager to get on with the wedding, but Churchill wanted to hold up formal publication of the banns until the company's creditors have approved plans to recapitalize, make the debt load more manageable...
...striking as the film is visually, Producer Disney cannot resist gilding it with sentiment. Twelve times in the past ten years he has sent teams of crack camera crews into the world's boondocks to record the behavior of lesser-known animals and plants. Twelve times, e.g., in The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie, the teams have returned with trunkloads of painstakingly gathered film, much of it unique. And twelve times Disney has taken the film and glued onto it a cloying narration and a sound track that often seems loudly superfluous. Even as the lemmings plunge crazily toward...