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...befits an institution that began business under a colonial buttonwood tree,* the venerable New York Stock Exchange now observes only every 25th birthday. For its 150th anniversary in 1942, trading halted one hour. It was a desultory day, with only 216,620 shares traded, and the Dow-Jones industrials ended...
...money than ever is needed to finance Europe's broadening technology - and more people than ever seem to have it. For those reasons, two venerable family-run firms last week were deep in plans to let little investors into their operations. In France, the Rothschild Bank chose its 150th anniversary to announce that Messieurs de Rothschild Freres, as the bank is formally known, is expanding from investment banking into a commercial bank serving smaller depositors. And in Belgium, the huge chemical company of Solvay et Cie. held a meeting at which 1,800 family "partners" discussed increasing Solvay...
Similarly, George Romney's five months of ambiguity on Viet Nam cost him considerable support. When he finally stated his position last week, at a dinner celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Hartford Times, it was hard to distinguish from the middle-of-the-road course that Johnson has followed-and the President promptly thanked him for his "strong endorsement...
...squad left the ice when the regulation period ended in a tie, but threats and cajolery induced them to return. Shortly thereafter, they were made victims of Coach Nat Harris's 150th victory at Harvard...
Last year these yards turned out no fewer than 175 ships, totaling about 250,000 tons. In the final week of 1966, Warnemünde's Warnow yards - East Germany's largest-delivered a 12,300-ton freighter to the U.S.S.R., along with the 150th of a series of 10,000-ton freighters to East Germany's own state-controlled shipping company, VEB (for Volkseigener Betrieb) Deutsche Seereederei (The People's Own German Shipping Enterprise). The Wismar yards launched a 20,000-ton Russian passenger ship, the Shota Rustaveli, and Rostock's Neptune yards sent...