Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since war's end, the stock market has been a faulty barometer of business activity, but a fair guide to what businessmen are thinking. In 1946 everyone expected a slump, and the market cracked wide open -yet for two years there was no slump in business...
Many Hollywood stars are stagestruck. To fill their yearning for the feel of an old-fashioned stage, some cinemactors take an occasional fling at Broadway. Others settle for Eastern summer stock or the hopeful little theaters that spring up in & around Los Angeles. In the past two years so many have trod the boards of a high-school auditorium in La Jolla, Calif., 100 miles south of Hollywood, that it has become the nation's most star-studded summer theater...
...Coast finance company when he decided to be his own boss. After a look at 100 different businesses, he picked shoes. He lined up pledges of $150,000 in venture capital to buy a small Brooklyn shoe factory, arrived in New York to close the deal just as the stock market crashed in 1929. His pledges soon evaporated...
Equally impressive evidence was available on the optimistic side. Stocks were undoubtedly getting stronger because many of them were paying their owners bigger returns. The Department of Commerce reported that dividend payments in May were up 14% over 1948; for the half-year, added the New York Stock Exchange, the Big Board companies had paid out 11.2% more than in the 1948 period...
Bloody Focus. Anglo-Iranian, which runs its affairs in the old-fashioned capitalist way (for all that the government owns 52.55% of its stock), stands out like a healthy thumb of prosperity amid Britain's near-bankruptcy. The company has, in fact, never ceased to prosper since the day in 1909 when it acquired the rich Persian oil concession that William Knox D'Arcy, a wandering Englishman, had bagged for a mere...