Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blows (Zenith International). A small boy stands at the bottom of a giant tin can, the centrifuge in an amusement park. As the can begins to spin, the centrifugal force moves him to the outer walls. Faster and faster it goes. Soon the boy can move neither backward nor forward; he is the prisoner of the machine. Searching for freedom, he scrambles along the walls upside down. The machine, he discovers, has repealed the natural law that keeps his feet on the ground. It has robbed him of all relationship to the true center of things...
...American Exchange. So great was the confusion when trading in Fairchild Camera was suspended temporarily that Exchange President Edward T. McCormick went onto the floor to discuss the break at Fairchild's trading post. Other electronics stocks followed; Texas Instruments fell 3⅞, IBM 2½. Zenith 4⅛, Litton...
...founded (1919) the broad-based Popular Party, largely Catholic but independent of the Vatican, which steered an enlightened middle course between burgeoning extremists of left and right, rose after the Fascist interlude to be Italy's dominant Christian Democratic Party; of a heart attack; in Rome. At the zenith (1923) of his powers Sturzo fell before the violent tactics of Mussolini and fled the country, in exile wrote prophetically (Italy and the Coming World) of postwar disorders, later returned to Italy to lend encouragement to his flourishing Christian Democrats...
Even stocks of electronics makers who sell chiefly to consumers sold off easily. Zenith Radio Corp. established a first-half record with earnings of $1.66 per share v. $1.01 last year, but lost 14⅛ points during the week. Philco Corp. came back from a $1,400,000 loss in the first half last year to earn 54? per share for the first six months of 1959, was off 2⅞ for the week. Motorola, which set a second-half record with $3.04 per share v. 76? last year, dipped seven points...
...other industries earnings were just as good. For some companies, such as Zenith Radio Corp., whose stock has spiraled from 67½ a year ago to 324½ last week, first-quarter earnings were so high ($3.37 per share) that Chairman Hugh Robertson facetiously told stockholders that he had qualms about announcing them. Explained Robertson: "We were fearful of putting out our first-quarter figures because they were so good. We don't think the stock is overinflated, but we don't want to add fuel to the fire...