Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dividends, the blue chips were yielding about 3% last week, and some of the racy electronics and missile favorites were paying nothing at all. Meanwhile, back in the bond market, the tax-exempts were yielding a handsome 3.8%, while the highest-grade corporates also moved above 4½%. The yield spread between common stocks and bonds was uncommonly wide. Classically, the situation called for a move out of stocks and into bonds. But investors-wagering heavily on the economy's growth, figuring on more inflation and preferring capital gains to dividends-showed no signs of hopping off Wall Street...
...placed in cultivation. Red China had imported hundreds of thousands of tons of fertilizer, sent its experts about the country teaching the intricacies of double cropping, closer planting and deeper plowing. "As great as the revolutionary vigor is," said the party to the peasant, "so great will be the yield...
Quantity v. Quality. One of the big problems is to rebuild confidence in the quality of U.S. wheat. Under the support program, many farmers turned to growing poor-grade grain because the yield was greater than on high-quality wheats. When this was dumped abroad by the Government it turned buyers away from the U.S. On top of this, many a grain man was not above shipping second-grade wheat when top quality was ordered. Two British mills, which were taking 1,000,000 bushels a month, became so disgusted with the poor quality of the wheat that they stopped...
Around the world, from alpine heights to sluggish deltas, and even down into the coralline depths of the Pacific, legmen for U.S. medicine were busy last week in a single-minded search. The objective: folk remedies, plants, lichens or marine slimes that might, through modern chemical analysis, yield useful drugs for treating man's ills, from toothache to cancer...
...resignation came as a surprise to Raytheon President Charles Francis Adams and a shock to Wall Street. Geneen simply walked into Adams' office and announced: "I'm resigning." Company insiders say Geneen wanted Adams' spot as chief executive, realized that Adams was not about to yield. Geneen's resignation sent Raytheon's stock down 6½ points, touching off a wave of selling of other electronic issues. Reason: in his three years with Raytheon, Geneen, who came from a top post at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.. helped reorganize Raytheon so effectively (TIME, June...