Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What swept the market along was a wave of stock splits, which always make the market more inviting. On the same day that Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) announced plans to give stockholders 2 shares for 1, the stock jumped 1 3/4 to 100⅝. Next day Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway proposed a similar split, and its common soared 5½ to 165. All told, there were a dozen stock splits or stock dividends proposed or approved last week. Only a week before, three big oil companies-Phillips, Gulf and Texas-had split their shares 2 for 1, adding...
Backed by $300,000 in Legion funds, the show opened last October in Los Angeles. It was a professional production but an obvious flop. It wheezed eastward, losing money steadily, except in such Legion strongholds as Indianapolis and Topeka. In Chicago, the Legionnaires decided not to let the deficit get any bigger. This week the show folded...
Most surprised reader of all was Fay N. Seaton, 68, owner and editor of the Mercury-Chronicle, onetime state G.O.P. publicity man and Republican-appointed chairman of the state social welfare board. When the editorial appeared, he was in Topeka for the inauguration of G.O.P. Governor Edward F. Arn. Next day, angry Editor Seaton set his readers right. Wrote he: "The editor of this newspaper regrets that such an editorial as that published Monday . . . should have appeared in its editorial column. It did not represent the view of the editor, but merely that of the writer thereof...
Many a Christian has teased his conscience with the question: What would happen if Christians guided their day-today lives by continually asking themselves, "What would Jesus do?" In Topeka, Kans. in 1896, Congregational Minister Charles Sheldon wrote a novel in which, for a year, various members of the congregation of a Midwest church tried to do just that. Author Sheldon's conclusions: the Christ-conscious turn-of-the-century man would lend a helping hand to the poor, campaign against the consumption of alcohol and tobacco, remain staunchly pacifist at whatever cost. Sheldon's In His Steps...
Jordan also disclosed that Bob Straggle has moved ahead of Hank Topeka as an offensive tackle. Stargel, formerly a defensive specialist, will probably see action both ways Saturday...