Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Choo Choo. Bluebell fans happily set about repainting the gingerbread Victorian station in its original hues of chocolate brown and yellow, with no intention of stopping there. Wives and children helped clear the track of weeds, and retired railroad men nostalgically offered their services free if locomotives and rolling stock could be found. To raise cash. 1,350 memberships in the society were sold at 1 guinea ($2.94) a year. Impressed at last, the ministry agreed to rent the society the Bluebell's trackage for $6,300 a year...
...swiftly acquired at least 500,000 card-carrying members (at 1 guinea or $2.95 for life membership). One club, reported the Spectator last week, includes among its members "ten M.P.s, eight millionaires, more than 60 knights, 35 peers, and enough businessmen and captains of industry to drain dry the Stock Exchange and the Savoy Grill...
Worried investors sold Lockheed stock so steadily that it dropped from a 1960 high of 32⅞ to 18⅝. Gross could minimize the losses by the usual method of spreading them over several years, or he could do what plane manufacturers had rarely done-write them all off at once. Said Gross: "We decided to take everything at once-and then be off to the races...
...inanimate, which will affect his impact in a way unknown to him at the time of performance. Much of Pudovkin is devoted to an examination of some ways of countering the fragmentation that filming, as a consequence of film's nature as an art, may cause. Longer rehearsal time, stock companies, close co-operation between director and actor--all are methods of aiding the actor to achieve unity, methods that can bolster his own development through the Method of a cohesive acting image...
...Lionel, Medaris will earn $50,000 a year, plus an option on 20,000 shares of Lionel stock pegged at 95% of last week's price. He intends to develop Lionel's standard lines of trains and toys, but also to expand gradually into grownup electronics (Lionel proposed a merger with Anton-Imco Electronics Corp. last June). He does not plan to go after Government contracts. Says he: "Development of a large military line is not our prime objective. I don't plan to create a corporate image that depends on the vagaries of the defense business...