Probably the hottest thing that has hit the Dallas investment community in years was the Morton Foods stock issue, which was sold to the public during the past week.

Letters by the reams came in from investment firms all over the nation, all of them wanting to get a part of the shares that would be sold ( 185,000 to the public at $12.50, with another 5,000 reserved for Morton Foods employes at $11.50 a share ).

`` We subscribe 500 shares of Morton Foods of Texas.

But what made the Morton Foods stock issue such a hot one??

Second, the `` potato chip industry '' has caught the fancy of investors lately, and until Morton Foods came along there were only two potato chip stocks -- Frito and H. W. Lay -- on the market.

All those things combined to make the Morton Foods stock the hot issue that it was and is.

Since then, Wakefern has announced deals to supply the Gristedes and Morton Williams chains of supermarkets in the New York City area, Heinen's Fine Foods chain in Ohio, as well as The Market Place in Bermuda

As a result, it is not easy to find a stock priced as the Morton issue was priced ( at roughly 10 times 1960 earnings, to yield a little over 5 per cent on the 64-cent anticipated dividend ).

Morton was lauded for not making Johnson's legal troubles his primary campaign issue.

John Douglas ( 1756 – 1818 ), son of James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton and had issue.

It was reported in the 3 April 2001 issue of The Times that James Morton, Sotheby's medal specialist, said: " Meekosha was a very modest man who was quite dismissive of the act that earned him the VC.

The issue was brought up when Minnesota Senator Morton S. Wilkinson introduced the Senate to a letter dated March 1, 1861, written to Davis and signed by Bright, involving firearm trades.

In 1999, Al Lewis of the Rocky Mountain News was awarded the Morton Margolin Prize for Distinguished Business Reporting, presented by the University of Denver School of Communication and Daniels College of Business, for his reporting on the dubious financing schemes of a Chattanooga, Tennessee, developer who bought out a failed special district in Colorado and used it to issue tax-free bonds to pay for a new headquarters for the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D. C ..

* James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton ( 1786 – 1814 ), married Harriet Douglas, granddaughter of James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton and had issue.

Nathaniel Morton stated he `` was deeply leavened with blasphemous and familistical opinions ''.

The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.

Both of those have had dynamic run-ups in price on the market in recent months, both were selling at higher price-earnings and yield bases than Morton was coming to market at, and everyone who knew anything about it expected the Morton stock to have a fast run-up.

He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming ( 1816 – 1888 ) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton ( 1848 – 1928 ), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.

Jelly Roll Morton is considered the earliest jazz arranger, writing down the parts when he was touring about 1912-1915 so that pick-up bands could play his compositions.

The Aberdour obelisk was built by Lord Morton on his departure from the village to relocate to a large home in Edinburgh, it was built so he could see his former hometown from his new house when he looked through binoculars-it stands in a cowfield between the castle and the beach.

On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.

It was then passed to Morton during 1924 though it is likely there was a period when they overlapped.

Morton wrote the column until 1975 ; it was revived in January 1996 and continues today, written by William Hartston, though the name " By the Way " has been dropped in favour of simply " Beachcomber ".

The column is unsigned except by " Beachcomber " and it was not publicly known that Morton or Wyndham-Lewis wrote it until the 1930s.

The Mar Saba letter was attributed to Clement by Morton Smith, but today it is thought to be either an ancient pseudepigraph or a modern forgery.

His parents were Presbyterian dissenters ; he was educated in a dissenting academy at Newington Green run by Charles Morton and is believed to have attended the church there.

The term was first popularized by American myrmecologist William Morton Wheeler in 1902.

This non-canonical gospel fragment was discovered in 1958, by biblical researcher Morton Smith at the Mar Saba monastery.

Pomacanthidae | Angelfish and hump coral-Howland Island NWR. On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.

One of the possible influences for the Kurtz character was Henry Morton Stanley of " Dr. Livingstone, I presume " fame, as he was a principal explorer of " The Dark Heart of Africa ", particularly the Congo.

Summers in Morton are hot, with high temperatures in the 90s ° F and dropping into the 60s ° F at nights.

During the WWII years ( and the recording ban ), Victor reissued hundreds of previously rare hot jazz by artists like Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Bennie Moten, McKinney's Cotton Pickers and many others on Bluebird.

Tresillo, the habanera, and related African-based single-celled figures have long been heard in the left hand part of piano compositions by New Orleans musicians, for example — Louis Moreau Gottschalk (" Souvenirs From Havana " 1859 ), and Jelly Roll Morton (" The Crave " 1910 ).

But this continued not long, for after Morton was sent for England, shortly after came over that worthy gentleman, Mr. John Indecott, who brought a patent under ye broad seall, for ye governmente of ye Massachusets, who visiting those parts caused ye May-polle to be cutt downe, and rebuked them for their profannes, and admonished them to looke ther should be better walking ; so they now, or others, changed ye name of their place againe, and called it Mounte-Dagon.

Due to Tudor propaganda efforts, it was long believed that they were both murdered not long afterward on Richard III's orders ; however, the lack of any conclusive proof of their fate has led to alternative scenarios being proposed, for instance that that both boys were murdered on the orders of one of Margaret Beaufort, Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, John Morton or Henry VII, or that Richard survived.

Morton also extended his residence at Dalkeith Palace, but these works have long since been demolished.

Her sons, Princes William and Harry, went to local nursery and pre-preparatory schools in Notting Hill, which is a short drive away, and were raised in Kensington Palace, which was a " children's paradise " according to Andrew Morton, with long passageways, a helicopter pad, and many outdoor gardens, including one on the roof where the family spent many hours.

Bunita met Morton Feldman in 1976, beginning a long association that lasted until his death in 1987.

Payment records for Morton end in 1476, and it was long assumed that he died then ; however more recent evidence from the Vatican archive shows that he was alive as late as 1479, since he resigned a Dutch parish then.

Henry Morton Stanley finally found glacier-capped mountains possibly fitting Diogenes's description in 1889 ( they had eluded European explorers for so long due to often being shrouded in mist ).

Although this important contribution has now been translated by Donald Morton, it has long been waiting for publication, due the author's desire to complete a lengthy new Introduction.

As long ago as 1966, G. M. Morton proposed Z-order for file sequencing of a static two dimensional geographical database.

They began a long series of matches against The Rock ' n ' Roll Express ( Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson ) which ran well into the 1990s and spanned several wrestling promotions.

They engaged in a long feud with the Rock ' N Roll Express ( Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson ).

During their tenure in SMW, The Heavenly Bodies had long running feuds with the likes of the new The Fantastics ( Bobby Fulton & Jackie Fulton ) and The Rock ' n ' Roll Express ( Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson ).