Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their crime-scene research, Cambridge police collected particles of dust from the room and especially the broken concrete wall of the safe. It is believed that some of the dust may have collected in the trousers cuffs or other articles of clothing he thieves were wearing...
After a month of dispensing gloom, the stock market finally gave Wall Streeters something to smile about last week-the kind of smile that comes only because the pain is a little less painful than before. On Thursday, June 28, stock prices staged their biggest rally since the brief rebound right after May 28's Blue Monday. In the third largest one-day jump on record, the Dow-Jones industrial average zoomed 20.37 points to 557-35. Next day it rose again modestly to close the week...
...more than any other discounter, has brought respectability to a business in which the clerks all too often seem to be taking 10% off for rudeness. At Korvette's, the discounter's original pipe racks and cold concrete floors have given way to piped-in music and wall-to-wall carpeting. But Korvette's prices still range 10% to 40% below "list" (list price itself is getting to be more of a fiction...
Ringing the Bells. The determined rush and dedication of Gene Ferkauf and his boys have not gone unnoticed on Wall Street. Investors who bought Korvette common at its 1960 high have more than tripled their money, and Ferkauf has benefited most of all because he owns 28% of the outstanding shares. From a 1960 peak of 121, Korvette soared to 57 earlier this year, slumped to 32! in the general market plunge, then recovered to last week's close of 38!, where it was selling at 26 times expected 1962 earnings...
Last year when the deficit-ridden Venezuelan government slapped on tight new import curbs to protect its dwindling supply of dollars, the prospects for many a foreign firm doing business in Venezuela looked bleak indeed. The industrial giants with major markets in Venezuela could vault the new import wall easily enough by building Venezuelan plants-as Ford Motor Co. and several others have already done. But for foreign firms whose Venezuelan sales were too small to support a separate factory, another export market seemed about to go glimmering...