Word: sell
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Everywhere that Bobby went, the politicos listened attentively and yielded to his hard sell. But just to be sure, Bobby promised to send in a neutral nonresident coordinator to keep him posted...
Negro grocers and a registered voter. First his bread deliveries were stopped. Then his meat deliveries. No longer would wholesalers sell him gasoline, soft drinks, beer, candy. His jukebox was disconnected and carted away. "I'm sorry," said his meat supplier. "There's three of you Negro grocers in the county and 175 of them, and they say if I sell anything to you three, they'll not buy another penny's worth." To survive, Franklin now drives 43 miles to Memphis several times a week, buys from a cash-and-carry warehouse...
Despite a lot of talk about disappointing second-quarter earnings, many investors seemed to buy and sell for other reasons. The stocks of Budd, Goodrich. Liggett & Myers and American Steel Foundries, for example, all rose despite lower earnings reports. A.M.F., Burroughs, Crown Zellerbach, General Foods and Gillette all fell despite the fact they had higher earnings...
...TIME, May 15, 1959). His book, How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, published five weeks ago, has already sold more than 100,000 copies. A key part of Darvas' system is the use of the "stop-loss order"; e.g., an investor with a stock selling at 40 instructs his broker to sell if the price dips below 38 to limit his loss. The catch is that if the only bid at the moment happens to be several points lower, the broker is required to sell. Thus, the seller who hoped to limit his loss...
Died. Herbert A. Kent, 73, president of P. Lorillard Co. from 1942 to 1952, board chairman the following three years, a proponent, in his 49 years with the company, of mild cigarettes and soft-sell advertising (including the 1942 Old Gold slogan: "For a treat instead of a treatment"); of a heart attack; in Milan, Italy...