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Meanwhile, Eliot's hockey team beat Kirkland, 4 to 2, and in House squash, Winthrop and Adams won both their 'A' and 'B' matches from Leverett and Eliot respectively, while Kirkland split with Dunster...
...Council recently formed the International Student Information Service to handle the project under mandate from the National Student Association following the Stockholm conference. This conference met after a split in the International Union of Students. The latter group, which has offices in Prague, was found to be Communist dominated...
What swept the market along was a wave of stock splits, which always make the market more inviting. On the same day that Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) announced plans to give stockholders 2 shares for 1, the stock jumped 1 3/4 to 100⅝. Next day Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway proposed a similar split, and its common soared 5½ to 165. All told, there were a dozen stock splits or stock dividends proposed or approved last week. Only a week before, three big oil companies-Phillips, Gulf and Texas-had split their shares 2 for 1, adding...
...stock splits help push the market higher, a high market is also the cause of stock splits. In the bull market, many stocks have climbed too high to be popular, i.e., above $50 a share. As a result, during 1950, by splitting the stocks, corporations have cut the price and broadened the ownership. General Motors gained 10,439 new stockholders last year after the 2-for-1 split, which gave it the world's biggest stock issue (88,208,680). Standard Oil's split, if approved, will give it some 60,500,000 shares...
Wood counted again to start the second period, when with the Yardings a man short, he split the defense and backhanded a low shot into the far corner. Jim Colt added to the lead when he belted in the third Crimson tally from a scramble in front of the nets...