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Wall Street professionals blamed the selling spree on a whole catalogue of uncertainties: worries about the state of the defense program, trouble in the Middle East, fears that the Federal Reserve's tight-money policy might be triggering a recession. "Business is not that bad," said James Crane Kellogg III, chairman of the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange. "As a matter of fact, it's good." The facts showed that business, moving at historically high levels, was indeed far better (see below) than business sentiment. Yet Wall Street, which likes to talk...
...mark its birthday in typical Texas-tall style, the store traveled more than 4,000 miles across the Atlantic for foreign help in turning the city into one gigantic promotion spree. Naturally, Neiman's chose France, where the highest fashion comes from−and naturally France was only too glad to help Neiman's, where all good Texas millionaires outfit their wives...
...touch football, a Kirkland squad, capitalizing on a series of interceptions, trounced Adams 62 to 6. The Deacons began their scoring spree in the first moments of the game, when they scored two touchdowns on the first two plays...
...head, the sense that great statements might be made without pomposity or apology, the rolling periods, all inevitably evoked memories of Conservatism's greatest living orator, Winston Churchill. Cheers grew even louder when Hailsham hauled round and delivered a slashing attack on Labor's unionists' "spending spree" "demands without programs and restraint" as trade the greatest threats in the fight against inflation, thundered: "I believe they would drive the qualified, the young and the vigorous to migrate, and leave the aged at home deprived of their savings by a depreciated currency to meditate at leisure upon...
...took over ill-starred Bellanca Corp. less than three years ago, quit as president in the midst of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of the company's financial reports. Trading his family's rubber-machinery business for control of Bellanca. Albert went on a stock-swapping spree that turned the small aircraft partsmaker into a grab bag of 70 firms, and helped push its stock from $4.37 a share to $30.50 a share within a few months (TIME. June 25, 1956). The stock plummeted last year to $1.75 a share because of the overexpansion, has since been...