Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of manners based on privilege, the British, he said, have devised a new set of manners based on rights. There is "dour deference for the first comer, the man at the head of the queue." A "ritual of the queue" has evolved, in which women take part with stock phrases like "This lady was before me, I think," and "Would you keep my place...
...Permit investors to take a capital gain on stock profits after holding the stock for three months instead...
Wall Street was more cheerful last week than it had been for months. With the stock market surging to a new high for the year, the Dow-Jones industrial average closed the week at 181.16, nearly 20 points above the June...
...York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram also took a cautious view. He saw "encouraging signs" of an uptrend, but he also called at the White House to tell President Truman how production and new investment could be stimulated by tax cuts. Among his recommendations...
...June 1913, on the tenth anniversary of his wedding, Gentleman-Farmer Sidney Tate lunched on Irish stew at his club and took stock of his marriage. He was a mild-mannered New York socialite who had come to Fort Penn, Pa. to marry rich, handsome, socially top-flight Grace Caldwell and had settled down to a provincial life of quiet opulence. His survey satisfied...