Word: sampler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Stock Exchange, as measured by the Dow-Jones industrial index, hit an alltime high. Ever since, the market has generally been sloughing off, with blue chips leading glamour stocks on the way down. Yet some stocks have more than held their own since Feb. S. A sampler of losers and gainers since the day of the historic high...
...they like what they see, the red one when they don't. This week the previewers will also be wired for sounding. Audience Surveys Inc. will start using a device that measures reactions by electrodes attached to the fingers; the electrodes measure basal skin resistance, and if a sampler is relaxed and enjoying the show, there is literally no sweat...
...magazine, thought his fellow newsman was worth a story. He trailed Churchill to his hotel, talked his way past an aide, and asked for an interview. Churchill ordered two bottles of whisky, and proceeded to entertain Ohlinger with his wide-ranging opinions until 5 in the morning. A Churchill sampler...
...heavily in helping solve the problems of the population explosion-to help provide food and fresh water to provide transportation and communications systems, to clean the air." Charles Gelman, 33, a Michigan chemist who was brought up in an orphanage, figured that he could build an improved air-pollution sampler. He put together a device from hardware-store parts, has since amassed a $1,300,000 fortune from a filter-manufacturing business that is growing along with the public clamor for air-pollution control...
...next six years, Mansfield worked, often half a mile underground, as a $4.25-a-day mucker and ore sampler in Butte's copper mines. He entered Montana State University in Missoula in 1928, in his senior year married Maureen Hayes, a copper-haired Butte schoolteacher who had tutored him for a time in high school English. They have one child, Anne, a 25-year-old Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College who now works for the Alliance for Progress in Washington...