Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution, then the jury would be asked to pronounce the guilt of the West. Europe's hopes of peace, two years ago kidnaped by the Kremlin, would be offered for ransom -cut rate. A special sale, possibly advertised with the promise that the Cominform was selling its whole stock, again going out of business...
...Dallas' Mercantile Bank auditorium last week, stockholders crowded in for the first annual meeting of Lone Star Steel Co. Texans were anxious to know how their first home-owned heavy metal industry (TIME, April 7, 1947) was doing. They heard the good news that Lone Star's stock, floated at $1.50 a share, was selling over the counter for as high as $7.50. Then came the bad news...
...crowded room in Washington, the Securities & Exchange Commission tried to unravel a mystery: Why had Financier Cyrus Eaton suddenly called off a deal to sell $11.7 million in stock for his old friend Henry Kaiser? This week, after two weeks of hearings, SEC had the inside story from Henry and Cy of the fiscal shennanigans that had set the old friends a-feuding...
...first. On the stand, he pictured himself as a trusting babe in the financial woods, led astray by Eaton and his Otis & Co. Kaiser testified that on the day before the new issue was to be floated (Feb. 3), Otis & Co. told him that K-F's stock should be "stabilized." Kaiser did not know what that meant. The underwriters, he said, explained: to keep the Curb price of the old stock steady, K-F ought to peg it by buying at a fixed price...
...stock was simply thrown at us," said Kaiser. By day's end, K-F had been forced to buy 186,200 shares, using up $2.5 million of K-F's cash to do it. Kaiser said that Eaton hailed the performance as "another Kaiser miracle...