Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...main foreign-aid agency) will slap a ceiling on all expenditures that "do not finance direct procurement of U.S. goods and services," and so will the $300 million Development Loan Fund. The armed forces will cut down on offshore procurement, and U.S. post exchanges and commissaries overseas will stock only U.S. goods. At the same time the U.S. will twist every foreign arm in sight to get reductions in tariffs on American goods and thus boost U.S. exports...
...week Sylvia was working ahead in preparation for a planned vacation with Sumner. But even vacations are no particular rest. On a brief winter idyl in the Bahamas, sunning herself near a Detroit executive who did not recognize her, Sylvia picked up a chance remark about an impending Ford stock sale that made front pages all over...
...only at the right time and place, but in the right way. Then, and even now, the business sections of the daily press offered only meager nourishment for the millions of newly curious. They abounded in the dullest kind of copy: earnings reports, production indexes, commodity prices and stock charts, most of it in the strange and mystifying currency of the marketplace: "economic parity," "discretionary income." "price-earnings ratio," "net free reserves...
...Crash's Impetus. In 1929, during Sylvia's freshman year, her life took an important new direction. By no coincidence, this was the year of the great October crash of the stock market, in which millions of dollars literally vanished in a day. Among the millions were some $30,000 that Mrs. Feldman had risked from her profits as a milliner. "It took a while for the pinch to really hurt," says Sylvia, "but when the roof fell in, I was appalled-and fascinated. How could something like that happen? How could so much money just disappear...
...Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, Darvas...