Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backs can run only through holes manufactured by linemen, and the Yardlings have a very competent forward wall, anchored by Captain Bill Swinford, an all-State guard from Oklahoma. Darwin Wile and Mike Sheridan make a pair of 200-pound tackles, and Massachusetts all-Prep Tony Watters holds down the center position...
...Recently I reread your March 24 cover story, "The Recession-How Deep? How Long?", and you deserve an orchid for 20/20 foresight. The stockmarket's action in the last seven months, rising almost 100 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average, has justified your cover captioned "Wall Street Bull: Spring, 1958." Forecasted pickups have likewise occurred in housing, steel and autos-to mention just a few indices -and you are to be commended for your courage in publishing this article when the recession was close to rock bottom. JULIUS M. WESTHEIMER Baltimore...
...WALL STREET JOURNAL: THE responsibility for this disaster, when you come right down to it, must rest on President Eisenhower. It was he who had the sense of direction and lost it; it was he who should have nurtured a party to support his ideas...
...week announced plans to give shareholders outside the Hartford family a vote in how the family-controlled corporation will be run. Some 19% of A. & P. stock is now held by the public, but the shares carry no regular voting power. The move is the first step in what Wall Street believes is a plan for the heirs of A. & P. Founder George H. Hartford* to sell part of their 81% stock interest in the food chain (last fiscal year sales: $4.8 billion...
When word first circulated on Wall Street in October 1957 that a plan was being considered to broaden public ownership in the company, the nonvoting common stock was selling for about $175 a share on the American Stock Exchange. It has risen steadily since then and closed at $445 a share the day before the plan was announced. Next day it scooted up 40 points to close at week...