Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...might have been the finish of a softer man. McCarthy was worried because the grounds around the mansion were still bare -he bought a nursery firm, used its stock to landscape his vast lawns, and sold the company at a $1,500 profit. Then he argued his creditors into letting him go on drilling. After that he really got rich with a string of successful explorations at Chocolate Bayou, Anchor, Bailey's Prairie, Coleto Creek, Angleton, Winnie-Stowell and Blue Lake...
...Times painted more clothing on Sally Rand, and airbrushed out the bare essentials of a model in a girdle ad. To those who complain that Times ads still show too much bosom, the Times has a stock reply: "Women's attire has come to be so scanty nowadays as to attract less & less attention." Censor Gannon occasionally nods. Once he passed double-meaning ads for Springs Mills's "Springmaid" fabrics (TIME, July 26, 1948). But the best-selling Kinsey report never made Gannon's grade...
...Television," said Manhattan's Bache & Co., "continues to be the industry with the most dynamic outlook for 1950." Most Wall Streeters seemed to think so too. Day after day last week, television stocks, which have been leading the advancing bull market, skittered up on the New York Stock Exchange, giving the whole list a fillip. Emerson Radio & Phonograph, which had been as low as 15 only 4½ months ago, soared 4⅝ points to 26⅞. Admiral Corp., which jumped from 18 to 29¼ a few months ago and then split its stock...
...Main stock in trade of the club is a contract with the East Cost Aviation Company, which provides planes to members at half regular price and assumes all liability for damage. The company operates at Bedford Army Air Station, a state-owned field 30 minutes away from the Square...
...Main stock in trade of the club is a contract with the East Coast Aviation Company, which provides planes to members at half regular price and assumes all liability for damage. The company operates at Bedford Army Air Station, a state-owned field 30 minutes away from the Square...