Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). International Figure Skating from West Berlin; the World 600 Stock Car championship at Charlotte, N.C.; and a preview of the U.S. Open Golf championship to be held at Baltusrol Golf Club, Springfield...
Lord & Taylor breathlessly advertised that they at last had their Emilio Pucci bikinis in stock, sold them out in two days. Ohrbach's looked over the situation, decided that on the ratio of bikini to flesh, what they'd better advertise was the tan ("A little green buys a lot of tan at Ohrbach's"). And Arnold Constable ran three lissome lovelies in bikinis with a message guaranteed to send every woman reader back to her diet tables: "A reward for every good girl who gave up malteds last March...
...fire up a frenzied rush to buy land, stake new claims and expand prospecting. "Everybody around here is participating," said R. J. Bruning, editor-publisher of the Northern Idaho Press, who is also president of two small mining firms. "We're all muckers-and we all own mining stocks." Many big mining companies have doubled their exploration budgets and Hecla Mining, the country's largest silver producer, is gambling $2,500,000 on deepening a single mine to 9,100 ft. "We're more optimistic than ever about the future of silver," said Hecla Chairman...
Last week the company's 150 shareholders, mostly members of the Wedgwood family, decided by a narrow margin of eight votes to offer stock to the public. Not pinched for capital, the company nevertheless is in an expansive mood. A further impetus is the Kennedy Round, which promises tariff cuts on china sold abroad. While its markets are firm, Wedgwood wants to create new ones. Says Managing Director Arthur Bryan, 44: "We can sell 75% of our output without even trying, but it's the top 25% that adds zip to our profits...
With the expansion that will continue with the sale of stock to the public, the company hopes that it can eventually catch up with its orders. Then perhaps Chairman Josiah Wedgwood, 67, the great-great-great-grandson of the founder, will not be forced to apologize to customers "who have had to suffer the long and vexatious delays owing to orders running in excess of productive capacity...