Word: worthlessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week, the Missouri Pacific Railroad moved a step closer to reorganization and Bob Young a step closer to owning a sizable chunk of MoPac's new common stock. Since MoPac went bankrupt in 1933, its common, 49% held by Young's Alleghany Corp., has usually been considered worthless. Four times the Interstate Commerce Commission tried to reorganize MoPac, but because each plan included bond or preferred stockholders and excluded common shares, Young blocked the moves in the courts. Finally, Young and MoPac's trustee compromised, agreed Young would have 10% (biggest single block) of the new common...
Saturation Point. In Fresno, Calif., ex-Convict Manuel Eurich, 35, was sentenced to from 1 to 14 years in prison despite his plea that he had written worthless checks only after getting drunk in a bar while sitting out a thunderstorm when he was on his way to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous...
Only 20 months ago, the Securities & Exchange Commission and the Ontario Securities Commission signed a solemn covenant to put an end to the wild-eyed promotion of worthless Canadian mining stocks in the U.S. Under the agreement, Ontario said it would force its stockbrokers to abide by SEC laws when peddling stocks in the U.S.; if they failed to do so, they would be subject to extradition and trial in U.S. courts. Last week Chairman O. E. Lennox of the Canadian commission announced that Ontario had dropped the deal as "a dismal failure...
Star of the German team was Hans Guenther Winkler, a 28-year-old aspirin salesman from Warendorf, who was mounted on Halla, a brown, nine-year-old mare that he had picked up as "a worthless nag" 2½ years ago and trained into a sensational jumper. Peering through his spectacles, he gave her a remarkably relaxed ride, took her easily over the first five jumps. On the sixth and toughest jump-a 5-ft.-high and 5-ft.-wide "double oxer"-the mare's hind hoofs, desperately straining upwards, did not quite clear the white bar and sent...
...carefully tabulated, passed along to styling and engineering and to President Curtice, who studies them carefully. The surveys are important, e.g., pushbutton doors were made standard equipment when the research department found that 70% of the people interviewed preferred them to handle doors. But surveys would be worthless without a sure styling instinct. Last year Harlow Curtice looked over the roomful of experimental cars, picked the experimental Pontiac and Chewy station wagon as the cars the public would like best. His stylists disagreed, but Curtice's judgment was borne out by the research department poll...