Word: stockly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rugs, red chairs, white curtains, a pink passageway, a yellow door), she was transported to the heady world of upper Bohemianism in the company of the eliteniks of the theater. She painted (commendably), wrote poetry (passably), studied acting, and even performed (middling) in a few TV shows and summer-stock plays. Charming in her shyness, stammering ever so slightly (a holdover from her childhood), Gloria was rated a good all-round girl and loving parent...
...means of letting colonies grow into nations, and among British colonies of the igth century Canada led the way to nationhood. After the American Revolution, an estimated 40,000 Loyalist refugees fled the hated republicanism of the new United States and found refuge in Canada-an influx of British stock to an area until then mostly populated by French habitants. In 1837 a brace of piddling rebellions-one led by French-Canadian Louis Papineau, the other by British-Canadian William Lyon Mackenzie-startled London and led to the establishment of "responsible government," with the Canadian colonies handling their own internal...
MERGER TALKS between General Dynamics Corp. (1958 sales: $1.5 billion) and Material Service Corp., Chicago building products supplier (1958 sales: $115 million) are on again, appear more promising than last year, when talks broke down over basis of exchange of stock...
Superior's Chairman William Keck does just as well. With 51% of Superior's 422,264 shares, he and his family will get $413 million in stock. The swap is nontaxable, since no cash changes hands. The only tax is on the income from their 5,168,500 shares of Texaco. Annual income, at Texaco's current $2.35 payout: $12.4 million...
Aroused Indians. But as long as there were French and Indians to fight, Rogers' stock was high. His most famous raid, which took him 150 miles into enemy territory, obliterated the troublesome Indian village at St. Francis, near the St. Lawrence River. The raiders had bad luck; the French discovered their cache of food and boats for the return voyage, and cut off all possibility of retreat. "This unlucky circumstance," Rogers recorded laconically, "put us in some consternation." But the Rangers pushed on, slogged for nine straight days through a vast spruce bog. Sacking the Indian town was comparatively...