Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairly strong bull market has been under way in the secondary stocks, including those of the smaller oil and gas companies, newer high-technology firms and takeover candidates. While the Dow has been languishing over the past four years - it was at 840 in September 1975 - the index of over-the-counter stocks has gone up 94% and the American Stock Exchange index has risen...
...reduction. The supply gap could widen because the IMF gold auctions are scheduled to stop next May, the Soviets have reduced their sales to roughly two-thirds of last year's, and South African production has decreased by about 25% over the past decade...
Remarkably, almost half of the 1,000 tons of gold that the IMF and the U.S. Treasury have put on the market in the past five years has been scooped up by one buyer: West Germany's Dresdner Bank. And its drive into gold has been pressed by one man, Hans-Joachim Schreiber, 46, who was appointed to the bank's board of directors five years ago. His faith in the metal dates to his youth in postwar Germany, where, he recalls, "some people owed their survival to the possession of a few ounces of gold...
During the 1976 presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter singled out the end-of-year spending orgy as one that he, as a sound manager, would stop. So much for good intentions. During the past fiscal year, monthly spending commitments by Government ranged between $39.5 billion and $51.2 billion a month until September, when it leaped to $86.8 billion. For example, Government spending (leaving aside the military) to acquire land and buildings jumped from $307 million in August 1978 to $1 billion in September...
...camping lines, the diversified company, founded in 1900 by William ("W.C.") Coleman, father of the present chairman, generates 40% of revenues with other manufactured goods, ranging from Hobie Cat catamarans to a new home heat pump that can be converted to an air conditioner in warm weather. In the past five years company sales have risen from $176 million to almost $300 million, and profits have surged from $4 million to $18 million. Coleman now has four plants operating in Wichita, six elsewhere in the U.S. and more than 5,000 employees. The Coleman family still owns...