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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million were equal to about $45 a share on the 6,502,378 shares outstanding. Sears owed $200 million, and its $320 million in cash and $9,000,000 in securities equaled only about $13.50 a share on their 24,210,454 outstanding shares. But investors seemed to prefer a company that has its cash working in the business to one that puts its money into safe, low-yield investments. Ward's stock had been edging down in the last year while Sears's has held steady. Stock prices at week's end: Ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Sears Up, Wards Down | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...Should Happen to You is pleasant entertainment though there are some dull stretches. Garson Kanin has proven that given Judy Holliday he can create a funny role. And Miss Holliday, with her vacant stare, indicates that gentlemen prefer blondes because some of them are pretty hilarious...

Author: By Byron R. Wein, | Title: It Should Happen to You | 3/31/1954 | See Source »

...works while decrying his ways. The bishop's parable: "It may very well be in any home that a man may set a rat trap with Gorgonzola cheese . . . Many in the home are dissatisfied with the Gorgonzola because it smells up the place. They should prefer to see Swiss cheese . . . put into the trap. But let no one confuse a process with a crime, and if the Gorgonzola is smelling up the house, then change the cheese, but, in God's name, do not forget that the house has to get rid of its dirty rats!" Others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Baited Trap | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...lasting music will be built is where the two great roads of popularity and of lasting beauty interest. In the pursuit of music, as in the acquirement of every form of artistic expression, we encounter the aesthetic paradox, that what we like first we seldom like best--that we prefer our second choice to our first...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Doc' Davison: Faith in Worthwhile Music | 3/27/1954 | See Source »

...contradict fashion if one day you like your skirts severely straight and the next, turn around and prefer them buoyantly full. Fashion this spring is an individual, and the gray prints and leather pumps have a look that proclaim them fashion for springtime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Springtime College Fashions--'54 | 3/26/1954 | See Source »

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