Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...killers had left no clues behind. The cord and tape they used to bind and gag their victims were stock items that could have been purchased in any town in the U.S. There were plenty of fingerprints around, but the house of the busy, friendly Clutters had been "like a railroad station," as a neighbor put it, and the prints could have belonged to any of numerous visitors. One thing seemed certain to the Clutters' friends and neighbors: so methodical a crime could not have been committed by strangers who came upon the farm by chance. "When this...
...total number of U.S. stockholders receiving such handy budget balancers is also at a new high. The latest New York Stock Exchange study showed 12,490,000 individual shareholders of record, up from 8,630,000 in 1956. The number of stockholders is now bigger than the number of factory workers. One in every four U.S. households gets a dividend check or checks v. one in seven only seven years ago. To keep the checks going, U.S. corporations are declaring dividends at a rate approaching $14 billion a year, against $9 billion...
Besides those who directly hold shares in corporations, there are nearly 4,000,000 mutual fund and other investment company shareholders who indirectly own a piece of U.S. industry. Added to these are millions protected by corporate pension funds, which last year bought 30% of new stock issues. The United Mine Workers' welfare and retirement fund holds nearly $4,000.000 in common stocks, gets over $195,000 in dividends...
Despite the rising popularity of shareholding, the new army of dividend receivers suffers from serious disadvantages compared with former years. For one thing, it costs more and more to get on the dividends list. From 1950 to 1959. rapidly rising stock prices cut the average yield to a new buyer of the stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average from...
When Tadhg Sweeney was moved to an interior line position late in the campaign, a grim, unspoken battle took place in each game. The rugged Sweeney's stock in trade was charging the goalie--a perfectly legal maneuver, as long as the netminder does not have control of the ball. For a while in each first period, it was a question of whether the enemy goalie was going to yield to Sweeney's insistent pounding or play a charging game. In both the Brown and Yale contests, the goalie chose to hang back; each time, this was a vitally important...