Word: sec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officially, settled for 6 ft. 6 in., two inches ahead of Teammates Phil Reavis and Vern Wilson. High Hurdlers Jack Davis, Lee Calhoun and Joel Shankle also finished 1, 2, 3. In a later meet, Davis set a world's 120-yd. high-hurdle record at 13.3 sec...
...Business," he declaims, "is the art of getting something for nothing," and he promptly starts to play a game of hide-and-SEC with such flimflamboyance that one day he gets the sulks because he has made only $5,000,000 by closing time. With his filthy lucre, Sanders buys himself a fine Fifth Avenue mansion and decorates it with such costly bric-a-brac as a millionairess (Zsa Zsa Gabor), her secretary (Nancy Gates), the wife of a business rival (Coleen Gray), the widow (Lisa Ferraday) of the brother he had betrayed...
KROY OILS, a Canadian company reportedly controlled by Great Sweet Grass Oils, which has been temporarily banned from trading over-the-counter and on the American Stock Exchange, has also been suspended by SEC from trading. SEC will hold hearings this month to see whether trading of two stocks should be suspended up to a year, or permanently...
...about time. For months SEC and the American Stock Exchange had been casting a suspicious eye on the trading in Sweet Grass, a favorite of the little speculator. Fortnight ago, Hearst Financial Columnist Leslie Gould listed it in his "Don't Be a Sucker" series as one of the hot items peddled over the counter by boiler shops using batteries of phones and sweet-talking salesmen. There were several reports that holders of big blocks of the stock were pushing it on over-the-counter brokers at 15% under the market price. On the American Exchange the stock became...
...Glaringly Misleading." SEC showed its first interest last January. Then, the Canadian company, which had interests in oil and gas wells and leases, filed an annual report with SEC. The company said that in return for 2,250,000 of its shares it had acquired the assets of two small oil companies, Pitt Petroleums Ltd. and Depositors Mutual Oil Development Co. SEC took a look at the oil and asset claims and told the company they were not justified. After receiving an amended version, SEC sent a second objection. The company promised to correct its report...