Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three times its book value to get control of one company. Wall Street is also skeptical of such tactics, and the stock of Defiance has dropped from a 1962 high of 13⅞ to 6⅝last week; B.S.F. is down to 6¾ from last year's peak of 15¼. But the trio carefully maintains a collectively optimistic face and predicts a profit...
...from last year's peak of 15¼. But the trio care fully maintains a collectively optimistic face and predicts a profit for Lionel this year. Muscat, who also is the one empowered to do the boasting among the partners, says: "Between the three of us, we have enough experience, money and follow-through to run any company in the country...
Like most railroaders, Maidman wants to concentrate on freight, but he picked a startling way to get rid of commuters: he offered to buy them out. If they would agree to a cutback in service from three round trips daily to two one-way trips at peak hours, he would put on a comfortable, air-conditioned streamliner. More important, if the 200 commuters agreed unanimously to his scrapping all commuter services, he would pay them $1,000 each. How to identify all those eligible to collect? Says Maidman: "The conductors know all the commuters on the line." At week...
...backlog of impressive portraits of his artist and writer friends. When the ab stractionists took over center stage, he tended to fade from public view. Last week Manhattan's Cober Gallery offered a reminder that Biddle is as fresh an artist at 78 as at the peak of his fame...
Since then, its original three sponsors have increased to ten, and the station claims a peak audience of about 165,000 viewers (Manhattan's lone educational channel can boast only some 65,000 viewers during prime time). Who watches? "Mostly housewives," claims a channel spokesman, who are presumed to be waiting up for husbands who are policemen, waiters, elevator operators, janitors, cab drivers-or late, late, late...