Word: riskier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whitehead will present Clifford (Golden Boy) Odets' new The Flowering Peach, plus a pair of plays still in the works. With three Broadway theaters leased, Stevens & Co. will have a sure home for Saint Joan when it gets to Manhattan in April, will have no trouble booking its riskier productions. More important, if Joan's tour (weekly cost: $23,000) pays its way, its producers plan to send at least two or three plays on pre-Broadway tours each year...
...plowed back before taxes are computed, thus giving oilmen a tax edge over most other industries. As a result, in two years the stocks of some of the biggest & soundest U.S. companies (Standard of Indiana, Socony, Texas Co., Shell, etc.) have more than doubled in value, while riskier Canadian "penny" oil stocks have made incredible climbs (one stock rose 4,700%, from 23? to $11.25). Many a wary trader thinks the speculation in stocks has gone too far. But, while almost every other industry is worried about its sales and profits, the oil industry (whose profits climbed 21% last year...
...Wallace Ford), he makes a deal with a smuggler to carry eight Chinese into the U.S., runs into a double cross that forces him to kill the smuggler and dump his passengers onto a Mexican beach. Then Morgan's troubles multiply until they drive him into a much riskier scheme: to pilot a getaway boat for four ruthless holdup men and kill them for the reward money before they can fulfill their plain intention of murdering...