Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Jan. 28, 1946) took over the drilling for a half-interest in the field. It drove down another 1,500 ft. Last week the big news came out. Slick-Urschel had struck oil and it looked like the biggest strike in years. The news sent Plymouth stock up 15½ points in two days...
Last week, when K-F proposed its third stock issue (1,500,000 shares, price undetermined), it had something more concrete to offer. In the prospectus, filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, K-F said it had grossed $227.5 million in the first eleven months of 1947, and had netted a profit of $15.5 million. (These figures, said K-F, were unaudited, thus subject to change.) By November, the rate of profit had risen to about $4.7 million a month, enough to wipe out the 1946 loss of $19,000,000. And K-F still had $18 mill...
...rosy profit figures did not cheer the stockmarket. It apparently felt that K-F's cars, overpriced when compared to other makes, may soon run into tough competition. On news of the new issue, the price of K-F's existing 4,750,000 shares of common stock fell from 14¼ to 12, then firmed up slightly at the weekend...
Circulating Millinery. In Paris, Madame la Comtesse Monique de la Moissonière launched a new fashion scheme: a "circulating library" for hats. From her stock of 100, women can rent the latest and zaniest at 500 francs for 24 hours (special offer: twelve hats a month for 3,000 francs). Said the countess: "This is my version of American mass production...
...unedited "rushes" will introduce the actors to their own movie personalities for the first time. Delayed in processing, the films have just returned to the told and will allow players, directors, technicians, and cameramen to take stock of their efforts thus...