Word: shared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Holders of IBM's 60 million shares will get one additional share for each one they hold, making it the biggest stock distribution in U.S. history...
...split will help ensure a lively market in its stock by keeping per-share prices within reach of ordinary investors. Lately, that reach had be come a stretch. Long the highest priced issue traded on the New York Stock Exchange, IBM in the past 20 months had swept from $320 to $677.50 by last week's meeting. Even after the split takes effect this week, IBM will still be competing for top-price honors with the Big Board's current second most expensive stock, Corning Glass Works, which closed last week...
...annual dividends ($4.35 last year) amount to a mere .7% return on investment, against 4% for other manufacturing stocks and 5% for bank savings accounts. But growth is something else again. As a result of splits-including this week's-and other distributions, a 100-share investment in 1914, which would have cost $2,750, has grown to 59,320 shares worth more than $20 million...
Having virtually clinched a share of the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis League Championship, the Harvard tennis team will try for a second title this weekend when it competes in the New England Championships at Amherst...
...Mayer's stagings share space in Howard Cutler's handsome, structural set with four impressive short films by Tim Hunter, a brief slide sequence by David McClelland, and some fascinating footage taken by a recent American traveller to Hanoi. For once, mixed media is something more than convenient compromise. On this catholic stage, it does not seem improbable that Nathan Pusey and Che Guevara should meet to discuss the role of youth and the values of revolution, and in fact, in a dialogue excerpted from their writings, the two gentlemen seem occasionally to agree uncomfortably well...