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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1964
Page
10
Readers share practical hacks from 1964 including using a cookie sheet to hold frozen items for easy viewing and defrosting, lining freezer interiors with foil, using carpet samples as doormats, adding pillow handle strips for travel, and writing letters during spare moments in public must be concise and structured.
The Decatur Daily notes small stock prices as buyers seek quick gains on neglected issues. Dow Jones average slid to 26.23, AP 60-stock average rose to 307.2, with rails gaining and 741 of 1517 issues declining while 611 advanced. AP record touched 307.8 intraweek.
Strength in mining shares led last week's market, with overall averages showing mixed direction as losers outweighed gainers on the New York Stock Exchange. Weekly volume fell to 25,505,050 shares from 26,796,270, with about 1.9 million tied to leaders Texas Gulf Sulphur and Calumet & Hecla as mining issues drew broad interest.
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