Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...type assignments by teachers. In the elementary grades particularly, these booklets must be liberally laced with pictures to be acceptable. Pupil A must have as many (or more) pictures as pupil B, or pupil A's booklet won't stand a chance of being displayed on the wall...
...cars, including four Rolls-Royces-but he still charged his friends 5? for rides to school. From Groton and Yale he crossed the Atlantic to study history and literature at Oxford (a point which should help him in Whitehall). From his first job as a $16-a-week Wall Street buzzer boy, he rose to head the highly profitable J. H. Whitney & Co. (investments). Even as he was getting into the social news with his stable of racers and steeplechasers, his polo playing, his first marriage to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus, and his second to Betsey Gushing Roosevelt...
...tolerant, adventurous public, one that has triumphed over inherited prejudice to an astonishing degree. You can put a spherical plastic gas tower on aluminum stilts, divide it into rooms, and quite a few people will be willing to crawl along saying, 'Is this the floor? Is this the wall?,' to make a down payment and call it home...
...Norman W. Foy: "Our policy is hard on stockholders, but there is no alternative." Though dividends were up slightly to $12 billion v. $11.2 billion in 1955, they were still only 60% of profits compared to the 75% that corporations consider the normal payout to stockholders. As one result, Wall Street's bull market did not reflect the boom. It climbed to a high of 521.05 on the Dow-Jones industrial average in April, then slipped back 50 points, and at year's end was just about where it started...
Though Crowell-Collier claimed the sale was a private transaction, SEC charged that it was in effect a public sale, and that the company had thus violated the law by failing to register the securities offering or make full disclosure of company records. However, Wall Streeters suspected that the SEC was less interested in this aspect of the case than in the sudden spurt in Crowell-Collier stock early this year on optimistic estimates of company earnings prospects. By last August more than $500,000 worth of debentures had been quietly converted into shares of common stock, said SEC; shares...