Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control to relax some of the security precautions. Barricades and machine-gun emplacements were removed from downtown Athens and Piraeus. Tanks returned to their bases. Greece's borders were once more opened to travelers; ports and airports resumed normal operations. Premier Kollias called on businessmen to reopen banks, stock exchanges and factories so that the country's economic life would not be harmed. Still, Greece had by no means returned to normal. Though many conservative politicians were released from custody, hundreds of others remained behind the walls of army compounds. Newspapers were not allowed to publish; the only radio allowed...
...search for a successor to New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston took a full seven months. This week, unless there is a last-minute change of mind, the Big Board will announce that it has found the man for the $125,000-a-year post. He is Robert W. Haack, 50, who as head of the National Association of Securities Dealers has been policeman of the nation's over-the-counter securities market for the past three years...
...securities analyst. After a Navy hitch in the South Pacific during World War II, Haack returned to the firm-subsequently renamed Robert W. Baird & Co.-and worked in underwriting, sales and trading before becoming a partner in 1950. Haack further broadened his experience as a governor of the Midwest Stock Exchange, moved to Washington in 1964 as the $80,000-a-year president of the N.A.S.D...
...rapidly expanding but hopelessly decentralized over-the-counter market. Haack quickly stamped himself as a man who could work closely with the SEC, yet keep the best interest of the N.A.S.D.'s member firms in mind. He strengthened the association's staff, made available more realistic stock quotations, stiffened requirements for dealing in securities. At the same time, arguing that more thorough study was required, he held out against SEC insistence on tighter supervision of mutual-fund sales practices...
...plan, now being considered by a Congressional committee, also calls for an interconnection of public stations and extensive use of communication satellites to provide a "TV stock exchange" permitting local programs to be viewed nationally...