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...mile span, the U.S. colonial experience began and ended-ushered in by the bedraggled settlers at Jamestown in 1607 and shouldered out with the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781. Geographically and historically, Williamsburg was a mid way point-where, almost simultaneously, colonial high living reached a gracious peak and the seeds of rebellion were born...
...airline industry has already reached a peak-86 billion annual passenger miles-that was not anticipated until at least 1971. The result is that the Federal Aviation Administration is giving serious thought to closing down smaller airport control towers, shifting traffic controllers, and even limiting the flood of new aircraft deliveries until the Federal Government and the industry together can make some sense out of overcrowded skies and overburdened airport facilities...
...last week, as some 500 of the company's 52,000 bewildered stockholders gathered for their annual meeting in Manhattan, A. & P. was in a first-rate tempest. With their stock crushed down from its 1961 peak of $70 (it closed last week at $26.75), A. & P. shareholders have long been restless over the company's declining (now 18%) share of grocery-chain sales. Last year its profit of $56 million (on sales of $5.4 billion) was off a bit from the previous year, despite Jay's robust prediction that earnings would be "running at a record...
When the markets opened last Thursday, a burst of trading toppled volume records not only on both major stock exchanges but also, by brokers' estimates, in the over-the-counter market. On the New York Stock Exchange, volume soared to an all-time peak of 21,350,000 shares. It was the third time since April 1 that Big Board turnover had reached new heights, eclipsing by ever-increasing margins the 39-year-old record of 16,410,000 shares traded on Oct. 29, 1929, when the market suffered its worst crash. On the American Stock Exchange, a center...
Hung Up. Partly reflecting such alarums and largely ignoring the fact that A.T. & T. profits ($2 billion last year) are at record levels. Bell stock has sagged to its lowest price since 1960. Between mid-1964, when the stock reached a peak of $75 a share, and last week, when it closed at $49.75, Bell's total market value declined $11 billion...