Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sales when the Government confiscated the company in 1942, and put Francis Brown, then a young Government attorney, in charge. The Government sold the company for $29 million in 1952, and within five years its yearly net exceeded that. But success was not guaranteed. A year after the stock went on the market at $17.50, it dropped to $11 before the company developed a cortisone-type drug. Then it found two, prednisolone and prednisone. Today, counting splits, the stock is selling...
...first public sale of 10.2 million Ford Motor Co. shares in 1956 has a stock issue attracted such broad public demand. Transitron quickly jumped to $49 per share in over-the-counter trading, closed the week at $43 per share. To Transitron's owners, David and Leo Bakalar. went $34.4 million for part of their interest in the third largest U.S. semiconductor producer (first: Texas Instruments Inc.; second: General Electric Co.). The Bakalar brothers still personally hold 6.4 million shares, almost evenly distributed between them. Their total worth, based on last week's market price: $311 million...
...case went into court last January when a Columbus federal grand jury indicted the four: Mains, sales vice president of the Union Fork & Hoe Co. of Columbus; William G. Rector and Robert R. Raymond, president and vice president of the True Temper Corp. of Cleveland; and F. Bliss Winn. president of the O. Ames Co. division of McDonough Co. of Parkersburg, W. Va. The indictment charged that at meetings held over the past five years they discussed setting identical prices for hundreds of implements, chiefly for gardening, such as rakes, shovels, picks, trowels, sidewalk scrapers and sod lifters. With other...
Jumbo died in 1910, and the golden age of heiresses and coronets went with him. The same year, Mary Pickford became America's sweetheart. As Author Eliot sees it, the events were symbolically linked. The age of society, such as it was, had ended, and the U.S. entered the age of celebrities, such as they...
While virtually all of these matches were made on a balance sheet, a few ended with mutual love and respect. Mary Leiter of Chicago married Lord Curzon and went with him to India, where she served selflessly as Vicereine. At her early death, he was heartbroken. She was beautiful, but her parents were colorful. Mamma Leiter was something of a malapropster. With an imperious gesture she would call attention to the imported "statutes in the nickies" of her marbled mansion in Washington...