Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Trust shareholders wanted to sell out if they could get a good price. New York Trust's big wholesale banking business (specializing in large industrial accounts) and its seven offices would nicely complement his own 94-office bank doing a largely retail banking business with smaller clients. Last week Helm proposed a merger, swapping 1¾ shares of Chemical Corn stock for one share of New York Trust. Directors of the New York Trust accepted the offer...
...percentages of membership in the various denominations diverged in only a few cases: The Radcliffe polls included a smaller percentage of Roman Catholics than Harvard. Although there was a comparable number of Jews, there were far fewer Orthodox and Conservative, the majority being Reform. Radcliffe showed a somewhat higher percentage of Episcopalians--6 for every 5 at Harvard. (This disproportion was corroborated by the personal observations of the Rev. Donald Maitland of Christ Church...
...close to her skinny fingers was the button that she had been trained to push. Monkey Baker, a graduate of the Naval Aviation School of Medicine at Pensacola, was a fluffy South American squirrel-monkey weighing only 11 oz. Wearing a tiny helmet, she rode in a smaller cylindrical capsule and lay on a molded bed of silicone rubber covered for her comfort with a thin mattress of rubber foam...
...years the average fund has increased about 300%. M.I.T.'s gain over that period: 365%. Thus $1,000 invested in M.I.T. shares ten years ago would be worth $3,650 today v. $1,417 if it had been placed in a savings bank at $%. But many a smaller fund that has less to invest, and thus can get in and out of the market more easily, has done much better. Among the top performers in each fund category, the best record of all was turned in by Boston's Keystone 8-4 Fund, with assets of only...
Reactions from varsity athletes indicated yesterday that the H.A.A.'s further reduced budget fits the teams like last year's uniforms. Several athletes noted that the smaller sports have been so hurt by their reduction to club status that their very existence as organized sports has been gravely threatened...