Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...past 16 years, Hooperatings have served as the stock market of radio. Sponsors bought and disposed of entertainers largely on the basis of the fluctuations in their popularity reported by the semimonthly charts of C. E. Hooper, Inc. Other researchers, and in particular Chicago's A. C. Nielsen Co., indignantly charged that the Hooper system, based on phone calls and limited to 36 large cities, was both incomplete and subject to error "as high as 40%." Gadget-minded Arthur Nielsen in his surveys used Audimeters, which are attached to radios in selected homes and record on film the time...
...Hand. But the job didn't seem a public service to the New York Journal-American's Financial Editor Leslie Gould. He hinted that Nelson's name was being used to help sell 800,000 shares of Caribou common stock at $1.25 a share, which was, he thought, "not the kind of stock to be sold to the public." The real powers behind the scene, wrote Columnist Gould, are two Russian-born brothers named Alexander and Boris Pregel, who "are listed as owning 321,000 common . . . costing them $5,350 or an average...
...investigate him. Schindler found "there wasn't a blotch on him," but suggested that the Pregels might save themselves some trouble by turning over the management of the company to someone like Nelson. Nelson agreed to take over, provided the Pregels gave him voting control of their stock for two years...
...enter the U.S. market, I.C.I, bought 70% of the outstanding stock of Arnold, Hoffman & Co., Inc. of Providence, R.I., one of the oldest (135 years) though least-known U.S. chemical companies. The price was high: I.C.I, had to pay $55 a share, twice what the stock had recently been selling for. To finance the $3,500,000 deal, shrewd Scotsman McGowan did not spend any of Britain's scarce dollars. He merely arranged to borrow the money from Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., will repay it from Arnold, Hoffman's U.S. earnings...
...Drumbeats" proved two things vaudeville is only 50 percent dead and the Band ought to cut some more records. The vaudeville was sandwiched in between 14 Band numbers, most of them pretty standard staff, but the stock-in-trade numbers are invariably good, and the hoofers were remarkable...