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Word: stock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minute Maid's initial success came when it proved that frozen orange juice could have a fresh-squeezed taste. It got its second boost when it sold Crooner Bing Crosby 20,000 shares of stock at 10? a share and made him a director (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948). As part of the deal, Crosby, whose stock is now worth $14.75 a share (paper profit: $293,000) began plugging Minute Maid on a song & chatter radio program five days a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Growing Maid | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Married. Heywood Hale ("Woodie") Broun, 31, onetime sportwriter (New York City's defunct PM and Star) turned actor (summer stock and Love Me Long), son of the late Columnist Heywood Broun, and Actress Jane Lloyd-Jones, in Woodstock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Although stock in many stores is running low, the CRIMSON is keeping its subscription lists open as a public service to those who want to give their parents or anybody else the perfect Christmas present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Exeunt as College Puts Half Century on File | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

Sophisticated summer stock actors war with sober New England villagers in the Hasty Pudding's 102nd annual production, "Heart of Gold," which opens at 8:30 p.m. tonight at 12 Holyoke Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC's 'Antigone,' Pudding Show Open Tonight | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...Center is well-equipped to handle group meetings, illustrated lectures, record recitals, and informal gatherings of plays and poetry, as well as round table discussions of problems related to the interpretation of the various cultures represented by the Center's stock of books, slides, records, reproductions, and realia. Both informal parties and special lectures are presented by the clubs, whose membership numbers anywhere form 15 to 60. Refreshments--beer for the German Club, wine or sherry for most of the others--follow their meetings. The Harvard Council of Foreign Language Clubs, including a representative from each group, makes suggestions...

Author: By Petter B. Taub, | Title: Now in Fourth Year, Modern Language Center Mixes Scholarship with Informal Atmosphere | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

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