Word: sell
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...tried to sell a pill to these lyrics yet, but any day now, some adman may. The U.S. is smack in the middle of a folk-music boom, and already the TV pitchmen have begun to take advantage of it. Pseudo folk groups such as the Kingston Trio (see SHOW BUSINESS) are riding high on the pop charts, and enthusiasm for all folk singers-real or synthetic-has grown so rapidly that there are now 50 or so professional practitioners making a handsome living where there were perhaps half a dozen five years ago. Last week, in far from mute...
...changes in components of our gross national product." The new industries on the rise, such as electronics and missiles, use comparatively little steel; thus some experts feel that the index statisticians lay too much emphasis on the steel industry. Some transistors, for example, smaller than a kernel of corn, sell for $200 to $300, or more than a ton of steel. And there is a shift in industries themselves. In Los Angeles, where aircraft-industry employment has dropped 12%, or nearly 3,000 workers a month, since last October, new jobs in electronics and missile fields boosted employment...
...stock specialist and is required by the New York Stock Exchange to "make the market" and help stabilize prices in the 52 stocks he specializes in. This means that he must often buy a stock, whatever its price and prospects, when the majority of investors want to sell, thus keep it from dropping too much. He must also sell stocks when the majority wants to buy, thus keep stocks from rising too fast. In the great "Cardiac Break" on Sept. 26, 1955, after President Eisenhower's attack, Coleman and the other 350 New York Exchange specialists laid out about...
WHEN the fire bell rings, Coleman nimbly dodges between frightened investors. Even when the overall trend of the market is down, there are momentary rallies that he can profit by. He can buy a stock one minute and sell it for a half-point profit the next. He often is "long" (buying a stock for a rise) in one stock while "short" (selling for a fall) in another. Coleman actually profited in the Cardiac Break, just as he did in the market's crash in 1929. "We were both long and short. To survive...
...computerlike mind, able to keep track of dozens of transactions down to the last eighth of a point. Peering over one of his books in which he keeps his transactions, he stands at his Post 13 on the floor each day, surrounded by brokers clamoring to buy and sell. On a typical morning last week, he had to spend $81,600 at the opening gong to buy 1,200 shares of Brunswick stock at 68 that nobody wanted. Later in the day the stock rose to 68¾, and Coleman sold some. But if the stock had gone down, Coleman...