Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clean-up Squad. About 800 of the 1,300 Stock Exchange employees walked out. Their places were taken by brokers and exchange members. Robert A. Magowan and Norman Smith, partners in Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, helped run messages on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Vice President John Haskell headed a detail that cleaned up the exchange at night. Curb President Truslow and Chairman Edward C. Werle padded around as night watchmen. In a, day or so, the exchanges were operating almost normally, though the makeshift staffs sweated to keep up with the heavy trading...
...picketing them. Two of them hadn't even suspected that they had any unionists on their staffs. Actually, they had only a few. At Hutton, only 18 of 325 employees walked out. It looked as if Dave Keefe faced a long and probably a losing fight. Said Stock Exchange President Emil Schram: "We are prepared to function indefinitely ... we have lots of help on the floor...
...Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) railroad meanders down from St. Louis to Memphis, then spraddles put over the Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas hinterland. This week the year of Jubilo began for the Cotton Belt's common stockholders. The Cotton Belt, which went bankrupt in 1935, finally paid a common stock dividend ($5), its first in its 57 years...
Like many another once bankrupt railroad, the Cotton Belt had found solvency in the war boom. The Southern Pacific Co., which owns 87% of the Cotton Belt stock, helped out by taking over the Cotton Belt's $18 million loan from RFC. But shippers along the railroad's wandering right of way gave a good deal of the credit for the comeback to the Cotton Belt's 70-year-old president, stubby, white-haired Frederick William Green...
...Southern Pacific. It was the only major railroad to come out of bankruptcy with its stockholders' interests 100% intact. (Stockholders in other reorganized railroads lost some $2.5 billion when their shares were washed out as worthless.) Six years ago, the I.C.C. had declared the Cotton Belt's stock worthless, too. In 1944, when the stock was suspended from trading on-the New York Stock Exchange, it sold for $1 a share. Last week, back on the big board...