Word: sold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growing up in Monongah, W. Va. (pop. 1,622), Jones developed such speed that Army Air Corps coaches turned him into a scatter-armed fireballer during World War II. After the war, Wild Man Jones wandered with indifferent success through the Indians' system until 1955, when he was sold to the Chicago Cubs...
...swift spread of stock ownership is even more striking on the Continent. In West Germany, the Adenauer government is plowing ahead with its plan to "reprivatize" a $1 billion industrial empire inherited from the Nazis. Last spring the government sold the giant Preussag mining combine to 216,000 new German stockholders limited to annual incomes of $3,800 or less. In one sweep of a pen, the total number of German stockholders was increased by a third, to around 800,000. Determined to have a competitive private-enterprise economy, the government is now planning to sell off the great Volkswagen...
...soared to a monthly record of 430,000 tons. The new imports brought the seven-month intake to 2.3 million tons, almost the equivalent of the output of a steel mill the size of Republic's 9,500-man Cleveland plant; foreign steel mills in 1959 had already sold U.S. customers more steel than in any full year in history. Republic Steel's Chairman Charles M. White warned that the walkout may well mean the permanent loss of part of the domestic steel markets to foreign producers "at the expense of the industry and steelworkers...
...they will sell all the planes they have to-and then some. But they are playing safe, in case they have guessed wrong. They have written off most-or all-of their heavy development costs so they will not be a burden in future years. If the planes are sold, profits will be fat. Lockheed's Chairman Robert Gross pointed out that in 1946. when Lockheed began to sell its Constellation, the company set a sales goal of 135 Connies as the break-even point "and prayed for the best." All told, Lockheed sold 856 Connies for more than...
...oxygen problem at the City Lights bookstore, run by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 40, as a combination Beat Haven and publishing house. Now the crush is so great that the bookstore has been expanded, and Ferlinghetti's only slightly offbeat A Coney Island of the Mind (New Directions) has sold a surprising 15,000 copies. The really far-out beatniks do even better. Allen Ginsberg's effete epic, Howl, published by Ferlinghetti, is up to 40,000 copies in print, and Fantasy Records is preparing a disk of Ginsberg reading Ginsberg, including some passages too naughty to print. Jack Kerouac...