Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran of the Normandy landing who always wanted to be a teacher, O'Brian received his Truk assignment in 1946. He soon found that, for a teacher, Truk was no island paradise. The islanders, an easygoing, coffee-colored people of mixed Micronesian stock, were poor, half-starved and, in Navy eyes, superstitious (one of their taboos: they refused to eat the Navy's beans...
Wall Street's chronic invalid, the stock market, was sitting up in bed again. The market, which had been edging up, seemed encouraged by the President's inaugural speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end, the Dow-Jones industrial average had recovered more than half of its 19-point drop following the November election. At 181.54, the industrial average was only 8.65 points short of its pre-election high mark. Even the airline stocks, which had been in the worst doldrums of all, perked up at news of dwindling deficits; their gains outran the market...
...stock sold was a 25% German-held interest confiscated by the U.S. during...
Bill Raney, network technical director, is supervising the expansion project which began early this term. Thus far maintenance men have built a now exit for their stock land repair rooms to make more room for repair work...
...President E. A. Nicholas explained that the new figure included $1,765,000 which the company had decided to put aside for inventory reserve, and $396,000 for possible loss on investments in an affiliate. Audit adjustments accounted for the remainder. When the Exchange lifted the trading ban, the stock slumped 1⅞ and dropped another ¾ next...