Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seem particularly nervous. Reddin described him as "very cool, very calm, very stable and quite lucid." John Doe demanded the details of a sexy Los Angeles murder case. "I want to ask the questions now," he remarked. "Why don't you answer my questions?" He talked about the stock market, an article on Hawaii that he had read recently, his liking for gardening, his belief that criminal justice discriminates against the underdog. When he felt that the investigators were talking down to him, he snapped: "I am not a mendicant." About the only things he would not discuss were...
Such uses of liquid crystals' electro-optical potential could be applied soon to a whole new generation of sports scoreboards, traffic-control signs, stock-market tickers, and instrument panels in cars and aircraft. Besides drawing very little power, the devices would work perfectly well in ordinary daylight, since liquid crystals reflect external light rather than produce their own. In the more distant future is a liquid-crystal TV screen. The entire television set, say the RCA researchers, not only would be as thin as a book, but could be watched even in the glaring light of a sun-drenched...
...firm, which imports and distributes Japanese and Austrian specialty steel products, showed an 18% return on its invested capital, its profits last year reached only $315,529. It operates with seven warehouses and 30 salesmen. Yet last week, when Alloy Steel brought out its first public issue of common stock, eager buyers not only snapped up the entire 358,150-share offering at $10, but bid the price up to $19 a share in the first hour of trading...
Over the past few months, the investment community has been gripped by a new-issue fever rivaling that of 1961-62. Through the end of May, 156 U.S. companies put their stock on the over-the-counter market for the first time, nearly triple the number that went public during the first five months of last year. By the end of last week, about a third of those new issues had doubled in market value...
...many buyers. Last month Advanced Computer Techniques Corp. soared from $7.50 to $29 a share the day it was issued. Underwriters are still gasping over the performance of Educational Computer Corp., a manufacturer of teaching devices. From an offering price of $7.50 on March 7, the company's stock has shot up to $85 for a 1,033% gain...