Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are other, easier ways to make a lot of money. Go into the stock market. Why do people do the public-hippie trip? Well. Entertainers occupy a quasi-sexual world onstage, symbolically conquering entire audiences with their vasty charms. A good rock performer must maintain a tremendously sexual presence onstage, and let it be known in various ways that he's got a bigger one than any two men in the audience. C.F. Mick Jagger or Hendrix. By throwing your head around dramatically, by sweating a lot, by swinging your libidinously sweat-curled hair like an escaped rapist...
...York Stock Exchange, the Dow-Jones industrial average sank for the fourth straight week. A 26-point loss reduced the average to 925, wiping out all its gains since mid-September. From its early December peak, the Dow has slipped 60 points, or 6%. Brokers generally see little on the economic horizon to provide much cheer...
Besides raising the cost of money, the Federal Reserve has been acting to constrict the nation's money supply. For much of 1968, the Reserve Board allowed the money stock to grow at an annual rate of 11%. But in the four weeks ended Jan. 1, the money supply rose at a 3.6% annual rate. By any measure, that amounts to a significant-if so far brief-squeeze...
...from an I.F.I.-controlled ball-bearing industry. They also routinely elect Agnellis as their mayors. Gianni has held the job since World War II, and his main concerns have been with Villar Perosa's housing, its budget and its roads. Recently I.F.I, issued 3,000,000 shares of stock that were eagerly bought at $9.63 each by some 30,000 investors. Gianni's own 15% of I.F.I, is the main source of his wealth. Altogether, the Agnelli family riches are estimated at about $500 million...
...exactly typical of Italy's industrialists, he is certainly foremost among them. Like Italian architects, film makers and sculptors, Italian industrialists have a certain flair. In the board room as on the opera stage, Italy is a nation of soloists; committee rule is rare, and stock ownership has not yet diminished the powers of owners and operators. Their accomplishments are all the more remarkable because the country is poor in resources, save for the ingenuity, inventiveness and individualism of its managers...