Word: stockly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enshrining once again a White House press corps ditty, Ike's Millionaires, which goes: We make the Stock Exchange our hangout...
...working in seven German plants, plants in Argentina, Brazil and India, assembly lines in Mexico, South Africa, Belgium, Ireland. Together, they are striving to shrink the company's order backlog of 82,000 cars and trucks, equal to six months' top production. As a result. Daimler-Benz stock is one of the greatest sensations on West Germany's booming stock market. A blue chip by nature, it is also the market's star riser, has gone up 400% in the past year, and last week alone jumped 10% to hit $800 a share...
...Mercedes' driver's seat is foxy Friedrich Flick, 75, a convicted war criminal who lost 80% of his steel fortune at war's end, bought a 37½% interest in Daimler-Benz between 1954 and 1957. Flick has driven Mercedes so fast and furiously that his stock has risen in value from $20 million to $200 million, and he has rocketed back to become Germany's No. 2 industrialist (after Alfried Krupp). Seeking a smaller car for the Mercedes line, Flick had Daimler buy 88% of the competing Auto Union company, which puts out the D.K.W...
SMALL-CAR DEAL between American Motors and West Germany's B.M.W. is in the exploratory stage. Ailing B.M.W. (pygmy-sized Isetta, high-priced luxury cars) appears ripe for acquisition; massive purchases by speculators have sent its stock to new highs on Frankfurt exchange...
...least successful film so far. But for every murky symbol, there is a sharp physical image: footsteps become important, a thunderclap almost too real, and shafts of light through the mist startlingly beautiful. With the help of this brilliant graphic technique, a haunting guitar score, and the talented stock company of players who have turned up in all recent Bergman films. The Magician manages to fascinate as it confuses, demonstrates that even inferior Bergman is worth sampling...