Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...emerald green ticket is doughty John Francis Kennedy, 55, a onetime stock clerk and WPA ditch digger whose name did him no harm in winning the maximum three terms as state treasurer (salary: $11,000). Now he wants to be Governor, and has at least a nominally clear field since the withdrawal of a Belmont fisherman named, of course, Kennedy (James M.). A pair of Kennedys are out to succeed incumbent Treasurer John Francis Kennedy: John Michael, 63, a Boston commercial painter, and John Boyle, 59, town manager of Saugus (pop. 20,000), who was an usher at the funeral...
British men have long insisted that what God and good breeding stock bestow, women had best leave alone.* At long last, British women discovered that they knew better, suddenly recognized what a difference a little lipstick can make. To meet the booming demand for cosmetics, U.S. companies such as Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden and Revlon have moved in alongside such traditional powder-and-scent houses as Atkinson, Goya and Yardley to take aim on a $300 million-a-year business. Although one-quarter of British women still use neither powder nor lipstick, eye shadow sales have jumped...
...stock market perked up last week after the Federal Reserve Board made its long-awaited reduction in margin requirements from 90% to 70% (see Essay). The news came after the market had declined for the twelfth time in 13 trading sessions, sent the Dow-Jones industrial average up 14.97 points in two days to close at 616.73, ahead 6.86 for the week. Wall Street wondered just how long the rally would last. The market had dropped 45.15 points during the 13-day period, and last week's rise was interpreted as the response of increased investor buying power...
...much do the nation's 12.5 million stock-market players know about the companies they invest in? To many of them, reported the United Shareholders of America last week, the stock market is little more than a numbers game of profits and dividends. In a sampling of 2,000 U.S. stockholders, the organization discovered that 51% did not know a single product made by any company in which they owned stock. Another 6% guessed-and guessed wrong, e.g., credited Bell & Howell with making aircraft, General Motors with gasoline, and Swift with trucks. Some 55% could not name a single...
...Shute 10. Clea, Durrell NONFICTION 1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (2) 2. Born Free, Adamson ( 1 ) 3. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (3) 4. I Kid You Not, Paar (4) 5. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (6) 6. How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, Darvas 7. Mr. Citizen, Truman (5) 8. The Night They Burned the Mountain, Dooley (7) 9. The Conscience of a Conservative, Gold water (9) 10. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson...