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...much "retail buyers" will be willing to pay. The fractional prices change rapidly, pushed up and down by such factors as bank interest rates, stock dividend rates, rumors of increased Government borrowing, the state of U.S. business and the bond market's elusive "mood." Few dealers had sharper instincts or better knowledge of the market's subtle ripples than Christopher J. Devine, a New Jersey fireman's son who founded his own firm at 28. Working with a fierce intensity that seldom permitted relaxation, Chris Devine opened nine offices around the country, built a staff of more...
...management just before failure. Barr fears that unprincipled operators may be taking over small banks, paying themselves inflated salaries to recover acquisition costs, and then selling risky loan paper to their own banks. Barr aims to stop such practices, perhaps with new legislation and certainly with a sharper eye on the nation's banks...
...much the same position is Quadrangle, who won a brilliant victory in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct two weeks ago. Quadrangle is sharper than jail house coffee right now but he probably lacks the necessary oomph in the stretch to hold off Hill Rise...
...collect the full benefit of the $2.4 billion drop in corporate taxes for a few years,* but the cut is only one of the factors encouraging them to spend. Profits after taxes have risen from $21.8 billion in 1961 to $27.2 billion in 1963. There has been an even sharper increase in the amount of cash in corporate coffers, since companies are writing off more income in the form of depreciation expenses under the liberalized depreciation rules passed in 1962. At the same time, rising orders for basic materials, industrial machines and other durable goods have pushed production beyond...
...never heard him say anything which would indicate that he felt that God had dealt with him unjustly. Those who knew him well would know he was suffering only because his face was a little whiter, the lines around his eyes a little deeper, his words a little sharper...