Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mercury and steel-hardening molybdenum, copper and zinc. At least 125 mining-company whirlybirds are chopping the mountain air in the hunt for minerals. In the past three months alone, 130 mining companies have been formed, mostly to mine the craze for penny dreadfuls on the frantic Vancouver Stock Exchange, where, since trading opens at 6 a.m. to be on schedule with Toronto and New York, it is not uncommon to see tuxedoed partygoers stagger in for a fling of late action...
Perhaps the most ancient function of religion is assuring man that he will live past death-and live in physical fact as well as in spirit. It was such a vision of immortality that led the Egyptians to mummify bodies and stock tombs with worldly belongings. Christians pray for the "resurrection of the body" and have traditionally held that at the Last Judgment the tombs will open and the dead will rise again to life. This age-old belief, combined with new technology, makes it seem prudent to a growing number of Americans that they should arrange to have their...
...Funston has been much more than that. Besides plugging stock ownership and introducing the monthly investment plan for small shareholders, he raised the number of listed companies from 1,100 to 1,300. This increase, plus the great expansion in trading and a number of operational efficiencies introduced by Funston, put the exchange's activities into the profit column after years of losses. He invested heavily in automation to increase the speed and accuracy of transactions, helped persuade listed companies to release more informative reports to shareholders, and forced companies to make every common stock a voting stock. When...
Like the market itself, Funston has had his downs as well as ups. Insiders complain that he failed to strengthen his spotty staff and that he had a chip on his shoulder in dealing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Relations were much smoother between the SEC and American Stock Exchange President Edwin D. Etherington who, before he accepted the presidency of Wesleyan University this summer, was the favored choice to follow Funston...
...schmalzy-darlin' situation comedy about the marriage of a Jewish boy and a Catholic girl titled Abie's Irish Rose, which ran for a record 2,327 performances on Broadway*and earned her, all told, an estimated $15 million, most of which she lost in the 1929 stock-market crash; of a heart attack; in an Englewood Cliffs, N.J., nursing home, where her fees were paid by the Actors' Fund, a charity for indigent theater people...