Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kennedy's remarks yesterday seemed to indicate that his campaign speeches will emphasize plans for "Massachusetts of the future" rather than a recitation of his record...
Lomax aired his theories on England's highbrow Third Programme in one of the most popular series in BBC history (commemorated by Punch in a cartoon of a down-at-the-mouth hillbilly singing: "I've got those Alan-Lomax-ain't-been-around-to-record-me blues"). Now back in the U.S., Lomax would like to "turn the loudspeakers around" and convert Americans from a nation of audiophiles into folk performers. An eminently folksy sound-representing, according to Lomax, the "furthest intrusion of Negro folksong into U.S. pop music: rock 'n' roll...
...brief period one day last week, stocks on the New York Exchange nudged through the alltime bull-market high of 521.05 on the Dow-Jones industrial average. They slipped a bit before the close, thus technically set no new record, since the closing prices are the ones that count. Three times in the last two years, stocks have marched up to the high set in April 1956, then backed away from it. At week's end Wall Streeters were split on whether the average would burst through and set a new record, or whether the market would slide into...
Whether the market is at a record high depends on which yardstick is used. Like the Dow-Jones, Standard & Poor's index of 425 industrial stocks was close to a record at 52.06, only a shade under the alltime high of 52.18. On the other hand, the New York Times index, at 556.67, still had a good way to go to its 590.96. Moreover, the averages are heavily weighted in favor of leading blue chips, most of which have risen in the bull market. Thus they do not show that many another stock has declined. Some...
...Thus, the credit card has risen as a new symbol of status that enables one to rent a plane or boat or car, give parties in nightclubs, even go on a full-blown safari in Africa without putting down a penny. For businessmen it also provides a convenient record of all expenses to show the Internal Revenue Service. Last week the credit-card game provided businessmen with the spectacle of being wooed and fought over by a handful of companies trying to dominate the business...