Word: stockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Chairman Daniel Haughton and President A. Carl Kotchian were forced to resign last year at the height of the payments scandal, Lockheed seemed likely to stall like a disabled jet. That it did not is due largely to Robert Haack, former president of the New York Stock...
...interest very many liberal-minded, middle-class people. Scott broke in on tiny, rural dirt tracks in the Deep South, getting his first opportunities to race only because promoters thought crowds might be interested in seeing a Negro crash and burn. He could expect no mercy from the white stock-car drivers, very few of whom carried N.A.A.C.P. membership cards in their wal lets. The worst Robinson could expect from his prejudiced competitors was something like a spike wound; the men Scott was running against had, at every race, the means to kill him and in all like lihood...
First the front page, of course. Then Sulzberger turns to the obituaries ("Super! I'm not here today, ha ha!") and on to the financial tables ("Super! Our stock's up!"). Now backward toward the front page again, ripping out headlines, paragraphs and whole stories that either please or peeve him, depositing the clippings on his night table for future action. Exhausted, Punch the Ripper flings the eviscerated carcass to the floor. And as the clock strikes 12, he sinks into the sweet sleep of a man who knows, as his paper's motto has it, all the news that...
...retired Manhattan textile executive. Together, the family owns 71.3% of Class B stock and 36.3% of Class A stock, which has narrower voting power than class B and is traded on the American Stock Exchange. *Well, richer, Rosenthal is said to earn $120,000; Sulzberger got $210,000, Sulzberger got $210,000 last year, plus a $75,000 bonus. The family trust, part of which he inherits when his mother dies, received $2.7 million in Times common stock dividends last year...
Earlier this year, as the economic recovery picked up momentum, some savvy Wall Street professionals were predicting that stock prices would zoom and the Dow Jones industrial average would easily soar beyond the peak of 1,051.70 it reached in 1973. So much for savvy. Since January the stock averages have wobbled and worried their way down steadily. Last week the 1977 market's peevishness turned into something approaching panic, as a selling stampede slashed share values and drove the Dow down to its lowest level in 18 months...