Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predicts that the bull will soon jump to his feet and start pawing the ground again. He will first need a heavy feeding of richer sales and earnings. Yet many investors are buying such stocks as U.S. Steel, Montgomery Ward, Libbey-Owens-Ford for the long pull. Says San Francisco Investment Broker George Davis of Davis, Skaggs & Co.: "These stocks are being bought by men with eyes over the hump, while the others are all moaning about 'what...
...Silk, also seemed mere horseflesh. With his build, Silky hardly looks like a thoroughbred at all. He has heavy jowls, the neck of a Percheron and the broad chest of a Turkish wrestler. He clops solidly up to the starting gate as if he were there only to pull it into position. Indeed, Silky is a horse out of Bunyan by Runyon...
...mile from Cow Creek, Driver Derossett eased down a slight incline beside the Big Sandy. Two hundred feet ahead, a wrecker was maneuvering across Highway 23 to pull a truck out of a ditch...
...Armand Hammer, 59, board chairman of Mutual Broadcasting System, stepped in as president, replacing Paul Roberts, 44. Hammer, an independent oilman, formed the syndicate that bought Mutual from RKO Teleradio Pictures, Inc. last August, installed Roberts, a Los Angeles radio executive, to pull /the money-losing network into the black. While Roberts' big stress on music and news brought MBS to the break-even point, he and Hammer reportedly disagreed on the future plans. Hammer said he would remain president only until he could get someone else...
...this Yale squad, led by Johnny Lee, Larry Downs, and Jerry Glynn, can be expected to be better prepared for this game than for its last encounter with the varsity. In that game they were far too confident and were not able to pull themselves together to fight back when the Crimson upset their expectations...