Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their hair had been properly dyed. Filming That Touch of Mink, he went shopping with Co-Star Doris Day and supervised her purchase of shoes, skirts and blouses to wear in the picture; back in Hollywood, he was so disturbed when he saw the paintings on a set wall that he held up production while he went home and returned with better ones from his private collection...
...more than 13 points for the week. From the New York Stock Exchange came news that the number of shares borrowed by short sellers had risen by mid-July to the highest level (5,159,000 shares) in nearly four years. This was a sure sign that many Wall Streeters were betting that the market is going down farther, since it indicated that they expect to pay the borrowed shares back at lower prices...
...skeptical Wall Streeters, the impressive growth achieved by mutual funds during the postwar era was always flawed by the fact that in the Great Bull Market of the 1950s it supposedly took real talent to lose money. Not until this year's seven-month market drop, climaxed by the Blue Monday crash, did the fund managers really get a chance to demonstrate how well they could perform in a shift from a major bull market to a major bear market...
Souvenir. Today, on the wall of his Kassel board room, Fritz-Aurel Goergen displays a selection of letters from his German bankers. Written as late as January of last year, they all protest nervously at his ambitious expansion plans for Henschel. A target of $122 million in sales for Henschel, complains one of the letters, is "intolerable." Says Goergen, whose sales have already hit $125 million and are still growing: "Putting those up for all to see is the revenge of the little...
...avail. "Let us be fair," writes Veeck. "Ford Frick does not try to do the wrong thing. Given the choice between doing something right or something wrong Frick will usually begin by doing as little as possible. It is only when he is pushed to the wall for a decision that he will almost always, with sure instinct and unerring aim, make an unholy mess of things...