Word: rung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LISA is the creation of polished, personable Executive Vice President Evan A. Mattison, who has rung up many a banking "first" for the Bank of America. He set up its installment financing system, also lured in many a small businessman by lending him working capital on accounts receivable. He thinks that LISA will not only bring in new customers, but will persuade present depositors to save on a more regular basis. Said he last week: "Insurance makes them squeeze their piggy banks every month." At week's end, some 200 new customers had made a date with LISA. Eventually...
...first quarter, shot up 8 points in one day's trading to 50⅛. Admiral, with earnings of $2.08, saw its stock rise 3¼ points to 37⅞ and help carry up the whole television list. By day's end, the New York Stock Exchange had rung up the biggest trading volume (2,750,000 shares) in three months. More than one-third of it was in television shares...
...power for ringing bells, so operators had to use hand cranks. When the women complained about this added labor, the Buildings and Grounds Department replied that putting in power would require "needless expense." Finally, in 1911 the discontented operators won their fight, and since then bells have been rung electrically...
...second bell has rung, and I am leaving
...headquarters across the street. Inside headquarters, beneath a gigantic portrait of Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung, more than a score of Hong Kong labor leaders smoked, drank endless cups of green tea and offered their sympathy to the locked-out trolley employees. A headline in the pro-Communist Ta Rung Pao set the tone. It read: "Friendly Love Will Support the Tramway Workers." Outside, restless crowds chanted a Communist song to the tune of "John Brown's Body...