Word: sec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intense Meade Alcorn, who neither drinks nor smokes, has little of retiring Len Hall's ebullience, but he brings to the job a record for action. Born in Suffield, Conn., he attended Dartmouth, there broke the world's record for the 60-yd. low hurdles. (His 6.9-sec. mark has since been lowered to 6.8.) He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, moved on to Yale Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1933. To his father, then traveling in Europe, Meade wired: "I am a lawyer." Replied Alcorn Sr.. who had been Hartford County state...
...twelfth lap with stomach cramps. The winner: Polish Refugee John Macy (9:02.6), now a student at the University of Houston. Olympic Hurdles Champion Lee Calhoun came back from a Philadelphia defeat by Decathlon Champion Milt Campbell and beat Campbell in Washington with a world indoor record 8.2 sec. time for the 70-yd. high hurdles. Olympian Ira Murchison improved on a disputed victory over Duke's Dave Sime in the 50-yd. dash at Philadelphia by whipping Sime at 70, 80 and 100 yards in Washington in times of 7.1, 8.0 and 9.9 sec...
...Board, where they would have free access to the world's biggest financial market. One of the intent listeners was blue-eyed, blueblood Count Carlo Faina, 62, president of Italy's giant Montecatini Co. Last week the exchange made an announcement: about Feb. 15, provided SEC agrees, the New York Stock Exchange will list 20 million shares of Catini, as it is known in Europe, the first Italian stock to be sold on the exchange. To facilitate trading, each U.S. certificate will represent five of the low-cost ($4.50 each) Italian shares. Said...
...starved U.S. public in 1946 with plans for the revolutionary (air-cooled rear engine, fuel injection, 130 m.p.h.) Tucker Torpedo, went bankrupt after producing a few hand-built models; of lung cancer; in Ypsilanti, Mich. Visionary Tucker was cleared in 1950 of U.S. charges of mail fraud and SEC violations, claimed Government meddling and malevolent auto tycoons did him in, by 1955 was riding another rear-engined dream, trying to promote $2,000,000 to build...
Though Crowell-Collier claimed the sale was a private transaction, SEC charged that it was in effect a public sale, and that the company had thus violated the law by failing to register the securities offering or make full disclosure of company records. However, Wall Streeters suspected that the SEC was less interested in this aspect of the case than in the sudden spurt in Crowell-Collier stock early this year on optimistic estimates of company earnings prospects. By last August more than $500,000 worth of debentures had been quietly converted into shares of common stock, said SEC; shares...