Word: stockly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will purport to show what the U.S. thinks of Castro. The poll is the first project of Bernard Relin & Associates Inc., a U.S. public-relations agency hired by Cuba in April for $72,000 a year. ¶ Learned that ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista held $45,879,245 worth of stock in Cuban and foreign industries, about $12 million of it in U.S. companies...
From the circuits and the speakeasies, Bailey & Barnum began picking up about $900 a week. But as Bill tells it now, in 1929 he saw the stock-market crash coming at him one way and talkies the other, so he broke up the old act and left the country. With his wife, he drifted east via South Africa and Australia, did routines in Peking, Tsingtao, Manila, Java and Shanghai. Then he put in two weeks at Singapore's famed Raffles Hotel, looked over the city and decided: "This is the place...
...tighter money by reducing the price it will pay for Government underwritten mortgages from 99% to 97% of face value. When money gets tight, as Fannie May knows, lenders turn in their mortgages to get the cash they need for other investments. But the hike did not faze the stock market, which has dropped more than once at such news. At week's end. it forged ahead to a new record high of 643 on the Dow-Jones industrial average...
...RELIEF for shareholders getting stock under antitrust divestiture decrees will be favorably considered by Justice and Treasury Departments in hope of speeding settlement of Du Pont-G.M. case (TIME, June 27, 1957 et seq.), aiding in overall antitrust enforcement. But Treasury and Justice oppose as too liberal bill to free Du Pont stockholders from paying regular income tax on G.M. stock when they receive it, require only payment of lower capital gains tax rate when G.M. stock is sold...
...expanded its savings plan, whereby the company matches every dollar saved by its nonunion employees (the union turned down the plan) with 50? of its own, and he broadened the incentive program, which now covers 75% of all employees either through cash awards for production ideas or through stock options. Blough, who himself picked up most of his 19,302 shares of U.S. Steel stock (worth $1,800,000) through options, considers the incentive program "one of the great factors in the progress of the corporation." He points proudly to the fact that U.S. Steel's first-quarter profit...