Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holding area in New Jersey (see map), sped through Preston on instruments at speeds as high as 360 knots (v. standard jet holding speed of 220 knots). At that speed, it closed the distance between Preston and the instrument traffic approach for La Guardia Airport in i min., 51 sec. And at that speed, at an altitude of 5,400 ft., it collided with TWA's Super Constellation Flight 266, from Dayton and Columbus, approaching La Guardia Airport under instructions from the La Guardia tower...
...dangerous if they are pure, i.e., if their frequency is limited. The reason: pure tones form a concentration of sound energy within the ear. The most "sensitive" frequencies-those which the body can least tolerate-occur, says Dr. Knudsen, within the octaves of 300-600 cycles per sec. and 600-1,200 cycles (middle C is 261.6 cycles). Warns Dr. Knudsen: "Anyone who lives in an environment where the intensity at these frequencies consistently reaches 85 decibels [for example, alongside a busy jet airport] should have hearing tests-because damage is possible. If the level stays at 90 decibels...
...price of a stock have long been outlawed. But Wall Street is confronted with a new, more complicated phenomenon: the growing refinement of the art of running up a stock by legitimate publicity techniques-and by some not so legitimate. This year the number of people criminally indicted by SEC for false or misleading stock information has increased 38%. The New York Stock Exchange, concerned over the flood of inside tips on corporate developments, last week issued a warning reminder to listed companies that any information likely to affect a stock's price-whether about dividends, new products...
...water. Two years ago Speculator Louis Wolfson, then chief stockholder in American Motors Corp., announced that he was selling his American Motors stock because he thought it had reached its peak. Actually, he had already sold out, and sold short, hoping the stock would drop, making him additional profits. SEC quickly stepped in and froze his holdings. Result: when the stock rose instead of dropping, Wolfson lost heavily...
...always so easy to identify or trace. TelAutograph stock zoomed from 9 to 24 in eight hectic trading days last fall after the company created the impression in a press release that it had a franchise on a machine able to transmit writing over telephone wires. The SEC set the record straight (TelAutograph had the machine, but not the only one of its kind). Three weeks ago Sperry Rand Corp. privately showed a group of stock analysts a new product for a computer, although the official announcement was one week off. The company also sent out hold-for-release stories...