Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...financial centers of the world last week, the gold fever spread like the blood-tingling news of a rich new strike. Day after day on the New York Stock Exchange, the cheap stock of a Philippine gold-mining company, Benguet Consolidated Mining Co., was among the heaviest traded. Wall Street's Bache & Co. was busily selling unrefined gold (the only kind that can be legally held in the U.S.) at premium prices ($44 an ounce). In London, South African gold-mining stocks were ones eagerly bought in a falling market...
Back in Hollywood for a new film, Summer Stock, Judy found that she was too healthy to squeeze into the clothes fashioned to the studio wardrobe's dummy of her normally 115-lb. figure. She promised to cut down on her health by 15 pounds in time for her first rehearsal...
Frederick H. Gwynne '50 has been assigned to the role of sheriff, while Kerr R. Lyne '52 and Peter D. Dibble will play the owners of a movie theater in the story of an embryonic stock company...
...musical, which takes place in "Purple Hills," deals with the difficulties of the struggling thespians. Nicholas Benton '50 will portray a stage-struck widow, and Wayne A. Clark '52 will portray her playwright son who tangles with the stock company. Edward L. Bullard '50 will play the widow's lover...
During the last 15 years, while he "gambled my money away" on dice and the stock market, Schulberg has watched his jobs shrink in importance. Finally, he began haunting cinemoguls' anterooms looking for a job. Says he: "I got the cold shoulder." His open letter offered some explanation: "Some of my friends who are not top executives tell me that doors are closed because I have in my time talked back to some of the big boys...