Word: stockly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stock-market shares had fallen 4 to 10 points on the news that the architect of Germany's economic miracle, and his party's most effective campaigner after Adenauer, might be lost in a largely honorific five-year job. Of the 271 Christian Democrats in Parliament, more than 120 signed petitions urging Erhard to stay at the Economics Ministry, and 46 of the dissenters warned that they would vote against Erhard at the July 1 secret ballot, ensuring his defeat for President...
...flurry of excited advertisements in the Brazil Herald glowed of fabulous land bargains in the wilds of the Mato Grosso plateau. Over a Rio television station, a warm-voiced announcer sold stock by posing an enticing question: "Does your money really work for you? Some of the luxuries of this world can be yours-a beach, a home, a boat, an airplane." Such were the latest come-ons of expatriate U.S. Swindlers Benjack Cage (TIME, Feb. 18, 1957) and Earl Belle (TIME, Aug. 4), and they seem to prove that good con men, like cats, land on their feet when...
...dentist, Cornell MacNeil took occasional voice lessons as a boy, later went to trade school and took a wartime job as turret-lathe operator. When he was working around New York, he tried out for roles in a few musicals, met his wife when he was singing in a stock-company production of The Student Prince: "We were sitting on a wardrobe trunk, and it became plain that it would be easier to lean on each other than sit up straight. This led, eventually, to five kids...
Like Pioneer IV, Wall Street's bull sped into uncharted territory last week. As trading on the New York Stock Exchange boiled up between 3,900,000 and 4,800,000 shares daily, Dow-Jones industrials hit a peak of 611.87, or 175 points above the 436.89 low of a year ago. Not even tough news could jolt it. The index gave up only 2.35 points on the Federal Reserve Board's discount-rate hike (see above), closed...
Such a broad and bright market led many an investor to play the old stubby pencil game of "How much would I have now if . . ." If he had bought 100 shares of some stocks, even at the 1929 pre-crash highs, he would now have a pile. Examples, counting stock splits and dividends, but not counting cash dividends and rights, of how each share multiplied: Stock '29 High (One Share) Last Week Number of Shares Now $ Total Value