Word: stockly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nasser was born, an assistant postmaster's son, of Egyptian-Arab land-tilling stock in the Upper Nile Valley in 1918, the year the exhausted European colonial powers won a great war but began to lose their world supremacy. Then...
...uranium. No controlled fusion reactor has yet been constructed for any purpose, and making a light one for rockets will be much harder than making a heavy one for power stations. But the nuclear enthusiasts are not discouraged. Deuterium is cheap, they say, and even if the entire stock were shot out of the nozzle, the fuel for a flight would cost only...
...Piper's collection of jazz and rock 'n' roll records rivals her classical music stock. American culture hits Britain "head-on," she said, "with no softening language barrier." She finds that American plays and motion pictures are more frank and to the point than their British counterparts...
...Toronto Stock Exchange, often the scene of frenzied trading, had never seen anything like it. In a single day last week, 14.8 million shares changed hands for the heaviest trading day in the exchange's history. On the floor, traders surged around trading posts, rushed madly from booth to booth waving order slips and shouting at the top of their lungs. The heavy trading was touched off by reports of a rich drill hole in a copper vein discovered more than a fortnight ago in the Mattagami area of Quebec by New Hosco Mines Ltd., a smalltime mining outfit...
...such shrewd tactics, the company, which the Tishman family controls with nearly 50% of the 1,940,000 shares of common stock, netted $4,033,975 in 1957, although the net profit for its first half of this year is down to $1,250,000. Tishman's goal is to build enough properties so that most or all the firm's profits will eventually come from rentals, make it immune to ups and downs in the market for new building. Says Norman Tishman: "When the day comes that we don't care whether we make a sale...