Word: swap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mythology is full of strange animals like the hippogriff, a beast that is half horse and half griffin.* Last week came word of a proposed merger which would create a real-life business hybrid-part cow and part bus. The companies concerned, whose directors have already approved a stock swap, are ACF-Brill Motors Co., maker of buses and trackless trolleys, and Foremost Dairies, Inc., seller of milk, ice cream and other dairy products in the South and (through foreign subsidiaries) the Far East. For ACF-Brill, which just turned the profit corner last year, after three years of losses...
There is no plot, but between the battle scenes, four sailors team up to swap patriotic cliches and stale jokes. But the boys are never too busy to suffer for their country. One burns his hands on hot shell cases after loosing his asbestos gloves, and another dies when the ship rams a submarine. It is not clear just why he dies since everyone else on board is, at worst, merely shaken...
...would be completely liquidated. Union Electric Co. of Missouri, a wholly owned subsidiary which now comprises 90% of North American's holdings, would exchange 1 1/5 shares of its common stock for each share of North American stock outstanding. During the two years needed to complete this stock swap, North American would attempt to sell its other holdings, e.g., North American Utility Securities Corp., Hevi Duty Electric Co.; Union Electric would take over any of these holdings that North American failed to sell...
...audiences throughout the U.S.-in Oakland, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, Syracuse and Williamsport, Pa.-have been eating it up. Businessmen and bobby-soxers, college students and clubwomen have jammed theaters and auditoriums and high-school gymnasiums to hear the Devil and Don Juan swap epigrams and arguments. As the grosses mounted, the show-business weekly, Variety, headlined: "STICKS OUTSHINE BROADWAY...
...hint. By the time Bemelmans pulled out of town in a new cowboy hat, at least seven of the canvases had been spoken for. One oilman's wife had offered him shares in a wildcat well (yet to be drilled) in exchange for a painting. "I'll swap oil for oil," bubbled Bemelmans...