Word: spurt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While false or flashy stock pumping may result in a sudden spurt, stock juggling often means only trouble in the long run. A stock that is constantly running up and down on unfounded rumors soon gets a bad name among long-term investors, the type of stockholder that corporations want. All Wall Street might take a lesson from the biggest U.S. company, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Last week it announced an increase in its dividend (see State of Business) without so much as an advance whisper reaching the Street...
...Uncle Sam shaved off his sideburns) seem to have effected precious little difference in the Tennessee tomcat. At 25 he still looks 17, still holds his li'l ole "gweetar" at crotch level and lets the spasms run through his legs while his eyes glaze and unintelligible phrases spurt from his doll-baby mouth. Between ballads he still looks like the hero of a girl's school Hamlet...
...down their request for financial backing, they came to Fairchild. He set them up in Fairchild Semiconductor Corp., as a division of Fairchild Camera, gave them stock in Fairchild Camera. Their success in developing the transistor (division sales may hit $30 million this year) is partly responsible for the spurt in Fairchild stock...
...only significant decline in the price index was made by used cars, for a reason that boded well for the rest of the economy: the continued spurt in new-auto sales. In the middle ten days of May,new-car sales climbed 6.6% over the same period last year, hitting the best selling rate (more than 22,000 daily) since 1955. Sales are now moving at an annual rate of 6,700,000 cars (including imports), which would make 1960 the second biggest car year in history. Scheduled production for June is 631,000 cars, the highest volume...
...Most Rigorous." Fueled by war babies and hunger for status, the spurt in Ivy League applications ranged from 10% over last year at Cornell to 28% at the University of Pennsylvania. The average: 16%. With an 18% boost in final applications, Princeton's Director of Admission C. William Edwards called the selection job "the most rigorous in my experience." It was just as bad for women's colleges. Radcliffe had 1,000 "well-qualified" applicants for a freshman class...