Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news good or bad, Wall Street seldom quivers twice over it. Last week the stock market not only shrugged off the anticipated drop in first-quarter corporate profits but sprinted to a new peak for 1967. Responding to growing indications that the economy will turn up later this year, the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed 13.87 points to close at 897.05. On top of earlier gains, that gave the market a 43.71-point lift in three weeks-for its strongest rally since January. And it left the Dow-Jones only an edge below the 900 level, which many brokers consider...
...find, was not alone in its sales and earnings sag. Enough corporations held annual meetings and reported first-quarter results last week so that patterns became clear. Surveying 514 companies, the New York Times found their combined profits off 7.3%, compared to last year. A similar survey by the Wall Street Journal of 468 companies showed after-tax earnings down 9% for the quarter. The sharpest drops were in autos, steel, rails, textiles, aircraft and building materials. Moderate gains were registered in office equipment, petroleum, tobacco, publishing and utilities. Here, too, the news was two-tone, and the future looked...
After Edward M. Gilbert's daring 1958 takeover of the E.L. Bruce Co., a leading manufacturer of hardwood products, Wall Street figured it would be hearing a lot more from the 34-year-old financial whizbang. What it heard was not exactly what had been expected. One day in 1962 Gilbert in formed Bruce directors that he had used $1,953,000 in company funds in a futile effort to cover heavy stock losses. Then he boarded a plane for Brazil. Returning voluntarily four months later, Gilbert has since lived a life that belies his onetime jet-set status...
...Obviously it has changed her for the worse. Throughout the film she expresses views that never graduate to the sophomoric: "He wanted the big cities, the bright lights . . . I was just a woman." To the lumpish Bannen she remarks: "I like you to be like this . . . like a stone wall...
...trails after the sailor, she and the stone wall traipse from Greece to Alexandria to dullest Africa, for no other reason, it seems, than to run into an overblown Levantine (Orson Welles) and a flyblown white hunter (Hugh Griffith). In the end the sailor remains unfound. Perhaps, ventures Bannen, this romantic ideal never existed. "But if he didn't," allows Moreau. "we would have had to invent him." Translation: We all need our illusions no matter how false we know they are. After seeing Tony Richardson's most recent flopdoodles-Mademoiselle, The Loved One, and now Sailor-moviegoers...