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...world's largest private enterprise, floated a $3.2 billion financing-a size usually associated only with U.S. Treasury offerings. After the issue went on sale, the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped nearly 10 points in two days as investors switched out of other securities to buy the bluest chip...
Join now in the glad moment. Relax. At the midnight hour while bats circle the confectionery temples of Palenque and Mother Moon gladly lends her bluest light, ascend with Merilee and Sam the steepriser steps of the Temple of the Prince...
Behind the euphemisms, Du Pont managers are plainly worried. Many stockholders share their concern. Though Wall Street still considers the company to be among the bluest of blue chips, Du Pont shares have dropped from $261 in 1965 to last week...
FRANCO's choice for the future King ' of Spain seems a storybook prince. Wavy-haired, tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and athletically built at 200 lbs., he is married to a beautiful princess who has borne him three handsome children. Through his veins courses the bluest of Europe's noble blood. He is the grandson of Alfonso XIII, Spain's last ruling king, the great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, and a direct descendant of Louis XVI, France's last Bourbon monarch...
...highest since the 6% rate posted by the New York Reserve Bank for three months in 1929, was a rush by commercial banks to lift their minimum lending rate from 6% to a record 61% annual interest. That "prime rate," as bankers call it, applies to borrowing by their bluest-chip corporate customers. Other interest rates throughout the economy scale upward from that level. Bankers predicted that loans will now grow costly enough to crimp small businessmen, capital-goods industries and local government construction projects. Worst hit, as usual, will be new housing, which is uniquely sensitive to a downturn...