Word: buys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week. "The wife and the boys," said Paw, "can do what they want with the money. They stuck with me when we had nothing to keep us alive but the milk from our five cows. I'm 62 now so I don't need it. They can buy anything they want...
There are nearly 1,000 "Come-Come -Clubs" in the islands. Last week Joe was guest of honor at a rally of 2,000 fans in Urawa, 15 miles northwest of Tokyo. Like his other fans, the Urawa club members buy quantities of the English textbooks which give Joe an annual royalty of almost 5½ million yen ($15,000), plus his yearly salary of 130,000 yen. Of his four-year-old program, Joe says modestly: "I just wanted to do something for my country, and realized this...
...opening gong, the traders began milling around the 18 stock trading posts. The biggest crowd jammed around Post No. 4, where two specialists handle the buying & selling of G.M. stock. Up rose a babble of cries. "I'll take 2,500 shares," offered one eager buyer. So many cried to buy "at the market" that the specialists, flipping through the sell orders on their books, had to huddle with a governor of the Exchange to set a fair opening price...
...beginning to take an increasing interest in the form sheet. Around the nation, brokers' offices were filling up with excited newcomers wanting to know what was being bought by the mysterious and nebulous group of big speculators known as "they," so that the little fellows could buy some of the same.* And many young investors who had stayed out of the market because they had been told what had happened in 1929, were now coming in. In a Seattle broker's office, one cocky young man said: "Father lost heavily in 1929, but then Dad didn...
...Dirt. While the stock of Zenith Radio was jumping from 31½ this year to a high of 70¼, Zenith President Eugene F. McDonald Jr. formed a subsidiary, "Teco," and gave his stockholders the right to buy one share of Teco at $10 for every five shares of Zenith they held. Teco is to handle his Phonevision for televising movies (TIME, May 1) if & when he gets it on a commercial basis. In a few weeks, the price of Teco rights was bid up to $38 on Chicago's over-the-counter market. The rise alarmed McDonald. Last...