Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday show, Time: Present -Chet Huntley Reporting, in which he explores predominantly heavy subjects: integration, world trade, public education. A graduate of Western broadcasting (Seattle, Los Angeles), he was brought East by NBC in 1956 to do the Sunday show, is one of TV's best-paid newsmen (total annual income...
...showrooms-and the rush was on. The big sales news of the week was made by Chevrolet's compact Corvair. In its first two days of public showing, the Corvair chalked up orders and deliveries of 26,000 cars, more than 35% of Chevy's two-day total of 75,000. The news was both good and bad for Chevy: the company had hoped to sell one Corvair for every five Chevrolets; instead, it was selling one for every three, indicating that the Corvair may eat heavily into Chevy's market for bigger cars...
American Motors' George Romney announced that his company set a sales record of 351,317 Ramblers in its 1959-model fiscal year, a gain of 128% over last year. He predicted that for calendar 1960 total sales of compact and small cars will amount to 2,250,000 units, of which about 1,750,000 will be U.S.-built compact cars...
...began, stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange are now worth nearly $350 billion. In the past seven years alone, the number of shareholders has doubled from 6,000,000 to 12,500,000. New corporate issues, which amounted to only about $400 million in the 1930s, now total more than $16 billion annually...
...boiler shop.* Most boiler shops are hit-and-run operations that fold up before the SEC can swing into action. But in the past year the commission, largely through its New York regional office under Paul Windels Jr., has cracked down hard. In fiscal 1959, the SEC's total number of injunctions against brokers and security dealers doubled over the previous year to in, and its number of criminal actions tripled to 45. "We'd do more," says SEC Chairman Edward N. Gadsby, "but we're limited in staff and have to concentrate on only the most...