Word: stocked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...flow. The complete man of electronics, he avoids face-to-face contact and gets his information on the outside world from newspapers, magazines and eight television monitors. He rarely watches a TV show when it is on the air, has it taped for later viewing, and also keeps a stock of several hundred taped movies...
Pearl Harbor Day. For Levin, 58, a millionaire New Jersey real estate developer who holds an 11% block of MGM stock (current value: $20 million), it was the second bitter proxy fight against the film company in less than a year. Increasingly critical of management on many matters since his election to the MGM board in 1965, Levin last May forced a stockholders' vote in an unsuccessful effort to block a proposed authorization of additional stock...
...West Coast, two widely different takeovers last week were the business talk of the territory: >Gulf & Western Industries, the auto parts, chemicals and mining conglomerate, which went hip-deep into the entertainment field last October by buying troubled Paramount Pictures in a $165 million stock swap deal, waded in farther. G&W agreed to take over Hollywood's Desilu Productions, the TV film maker controlled by Comedienne Lucille Ball, for $17 million in stock. Desilu produces four TV series (The Lucy Show, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek and You Don't Say), rents production facilities to 13 others, including...
...cash amid a similar expansion? Palevsky is unconcerned, even though S.D.S. last year boosted its debt from less than $2,000,000 to more than $16 million, built a fifth new plant and increased employment to 2,900. Reflecting their own confident computations, Wall Street investors have pushed S.D.S. stock up 42 points to $84.50 since October, doubling the value of Pioneer Palevsky's 15% shareholding to $27 million-a pretty fair dividend on his original 1961 investment...
...Olivetti was in real trouble. It had to pump millions into Olivetti-Underwood. It was also afflicted by Olivetti family feuding, swelling costs, and a painful Italian recession. New life came in 1964 when a syndicate headed by Fiat's Giovanni Agnelli put $50 million into Olivetti stock, installed Peccei, a rising Fiat executive, as managing director...