Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year yet, registered sales of purebred Holsteins reached a record total of 61,539 (there were all sorts of guesses on how many more sales went unregistered). Almost half of the animals had been exported, the largest number to the U.S., whose big demand for Holstein and other breeding stock has made Canada a leading exporter in the business. The rest went to 18 different countries, most of them in Latin America...
...hard-bitten sheriff of Kentucky's "bloody Harlan" County during the '30s, famed for his rough treatment of United Mine Workers organizers; of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. In 1937, Middleton admitted to the La Follette Civil Liberties Investigations Committee that he owned coal company stock, and that most of his 370-odd deputies were paid by the coal companies (documents showed that one-quarter of them had criminal records...
There was another reason for the stock rise. For the first time in its history, U.S. Steel decided to split its stock-3 shares for 1-if the stockholders approve next May. By thus lowering the price of its stock, Big Steel hoped to widen the ownership, and win more friends who might influence Congress if there is any more talk of putting the Government into the steel business. Next day, in a 55,100-share turnover-greatest since Nov. 7, 1940-U.S. Steel closed at 77½, up 4⅝ points, though the rest of the market sagged...
...increase in its profit to $32 million, boosted its quarterly dividend from 50? to 62½?. Wheeling Steel kept to its regular rate ($1 a quarter), though its earnings had jumped to $23.24 per common share (v. $18.66 last year), nearly half the current market price of its stock. Even tiny Barium Steel, which had never paid a dividend, declared one of 10% in stock...
Carr (an American who has spent most of his adult life in England) is the first biographer to get free access to Sir Arthur's huge stock of letters and manuscripts. Since Carr himself is a talented contriver of whodunits (as "Carter Dickson" he is also the creator of Detective Sir Henry Merrivale), mystery fans are likely to expect his Life to be first rate. They may be a little disappointed. The Life is highly valuable as the most definitive job to date, but some of its fine feast of facts has been spoiled by the way they have...