Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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EUROPEAN STOCK MARKETS are losing their bullishness. Value of stock on the Milan Exchange has declined 40% in past four months. Paris Exchange has slipped 10% since its 1960 high last August; London has retreated 12% from record peak. Only West German market is still strong, is expected to finish...
PIGGYBACK POOL will be set up by the R.E.A. Express (new name of the Railway Express Agency). Shippers will be able to rent trailers for shipping by rail, then turn them in at 31 points across the U.S., thus save cost of returning the trailers to home base after the...
BAN ON DIVERSIFICATION will keep Swift & Co., Armour & Co. and Cudahy Packing Co. from expanding into sales of nonmeat products such as fish, vegetables, flour, sugar, cigars, china and furniture. U.S. District Court reaffirmed 40-year-old antitrust decree that bars the big packers from entering retail trade, which they...
On a rolling 120 acres outside Buffalo last week, engineers started planning the construction of a $12.5 million apartment hotel and a cluster of small cottages, to be called Rockledge. It will have a pitch-and-putt golf course, lawn bowling, shuffleboard, roof garden, sun deck and an infirmary offering...
Exploding Market. The number of private projects to provide housing for the elderly is growing fast; Social Security payments and company pension plans make it possible for more and more of the retired to live in such developments. One-fourth of the 15.5 million U.S. citizens over age 65 receive...