Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brilliant young Dubos went to work on a fantastic idea which, like many great ideas, was almost laughably simple: Why not feed disease germs to soil micro-organisms and see which species thrived on the diet...
During his last trip to his native Russia in 1946, Waksman was treated royally by the Russians and made a member of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. With this honor went a 15,000-ruble prize, but Waksman could not take the money out of Russia. So he bought a rather formidable painting of a north Russian landscape by Beruleia-Berulia, which now hangs in the living room. The firmly fixed price was 18,000 rubles, but the Russians agreed to knock off 3,000 rubles if allowed to keep the frame...
...increasing tendency to pass some of these profits along to stockholders in the form of bigger dividends. Chrysler, for example, which had turned in a third-quarter net of $45.4 million v. $24.1 million in the 1948 period, raised its $1.25 quarterly dividend to $1.50. The stock went up 2⅛ points in the next day's trading, to a new 1949 high...
...Burial. Prices steadied, but on Monday the selling began again. Steel tumbled to 186, General Electric lost 47⅛ points. Tickers again fell nearly three hours behind, and again thousands of new margin calls went out for the money that couldn't be begged or borrowed. Thus came "Black Tuesday...
When Elsie Murphy went job-hunting in 1934, she wanted to make a million. She thought the best chance was in the wholesale fabric business, where there were few women, and she picked S. Stroock & Co., Inc., as her target. President Sylvan Stroock offered her something less than a million, but Elsie took the job anyway-at $20 a week. By last week chic, shrewd Mrs. Murphy had still not made her million. But, at 41, she did become the $35,000-a-year president of the company (Sylvan Stroock moved himself up to the new post of board chairman...