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...value of U.S. common stocks in 1985 climbed by a record $462 billion. While that was enough to spread some profits around to a lot of investors, the biggest winners were shares that started the year very cheap. Most energy stocks did not do very well last year because of the world petroleum glut, but Texas International, an oil and gas concern, rose the furthest among the 2,312 issues listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It jumped by more than 400%, from 1 1/8 to 5¾. Reason: a deal to develop oil wells in Egypt...
...biggest winner in over-the-counter stocks was Span-America Medical Systems, a South Carolina manufacturer of foam pads for hospital beds whose shares jumped from 3 1/8 to 22¾. Also among the highflyers were the Gap, the casual-wear retailer, whose stock more than tripled, from 20½ to 62¾; and Tonka, the Minnesota toymaker, whose Pound Puppies and Go-Bots carried its shares briskly along from 10¼ to 27½. On the American Stock Exchange, American Medical Buildings, which had a close brush with bankruptcy in 1984, was the biggest of the big last year. It jumped from...
...sales: $731 million), a manufacturer of building and chemical products. In a defensive move, Carbide decided last week to sell its consumer businesses for some $2 billion. That will help the firm raise money that can be used to pay for a buy-back offer for 55% of its stock. The price: $85 a share, topping GAF's best offer of $78. A smaller Union Carbide will also be a less attractive target...
Peter Peterson, the Greek hash-house owner's son who rose to the presidency of Bell & Howell before he was 35, and Lewis Glucksman, the Manhattan lamp manufacturer's son who scrapped his way up through Lehman's unprestigious but increasingly profitable stock-and-bond-trading department, might have been born enemies. Peterson emerges as cold, almost oblivious to the people around him. A close associate who may have saved his life during a seizure recalls that Peterson never thanked him. Glucksman was mercurial, an "emotional volcano" in the phrase of a colleague, who might kiss or curse fellow employees...
...touching was your article "A Christmas Story," by Roger Rosenblatt [NATION, Dec.30]. Every city in this country has a Sunset Park with its Mallorys, Marias, Geraldines and Mary Pauls. Reading about their lives made me take stock of myself and forced me to swallow a large dose of "shocking reality." George Harris Sr. Houston...