Word: run
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christopher Morley's 1939 bestseller, the story tells what happens when a Philadelphia girl (Diane Brewster) tries to go beyond her station on the well-known Main Line. She marries into one of the very best families, but on her wedding night discovers that the blue blood has run pathetically thin. Frightened and confused, she flies back to the arms of her redbrick-Irish boyfriend (Brian Keith) and soon finds herself with child. She also finds herself without a husband: he smashes up his car and is killed. Coldly refusing to marry the man she really loves, she informs...
...There are now only three hospitals for addicts in the U.S.: two federal, at Lexington, Ky., and Fort Worth, and one run by New York City for victims under 21. †Main reason most addicts turn to crime is that illicit drugs cost several hundred times the legal price, and the "habit" may set them back $500 a week...
...Investors Management Co., of Elizabeth, N.J., runs one balanced and two common stock funds with total assets of $711 million. The shares of all three are sold by Hugh W. Long & Co., which did such a fine job that Hugh Long is now president of all the funds. ¶ Continental Research Corp., of Kansas City, Mo., manages four U.S. funds (including an income and a science fund) and participates in the management of a Canadian fund; it has 145,000 shareholders and total assets of $634 million. Founded in 1950 to take over management of the United Fund series...
...Shares. Easygoing, brilliant Merrill Griswold and sober, diligent Dwight Robinson made a crack team. With his flair for drama, Griswold pulled Massachusetts Investors Trust through a major test in 1932. Despite the fund's respectable performance in the crash, the idea persisted that it could not handle a run on its shares. When a Boston bank was forced to cash in 40,000 M.I.T. shares held as collateral, it called up Griswold, advised him that it would deliver the blow gently by selling over a period of several weeks. Snapped Griswold: "Send them in this afternoon." M.I.T. redeemed...
...keeps all his sales eggs in one basket by having I.D.S. sell all five funds itself, a practice unique among investment companies. ¶ The Wellington Fund, of Philadelphia, is a balanced fund with assets of $925 million and 275,000 stockholders. Launched in 1929, it is still run by President Walter Morgan, one of the founders, also has a second fund (Wellington Equity Fund), with assets of $41 million. Wellington topped all the funds in new sales over the past four years...