Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wall Street's bear market reached such a pass that a Cabinet member asked the President if he had considered putting a floor under stock prices. The President just laughed. But it was no joke to U.S. investors, who have seen the averages sink for 31 months. Last week a flickering Wall Street rally set off another wave of conjecture on one of the biggest financial enigmas of the war: the divergence of U.S. and British stockmarket prices (see chart...
...meantime, Sammy is going about his business, planting, weeding and mowing, helping his friends with their new problems, worrying that his invalid mother might not be able to bear the strain of either being parted from her family or leaving her home. Nevertheless he is packed and ready; he will do willingly whatever is necessary and buy a war bond, too, when he gets over his confusion and resentment...
...order to be counted at all, a ballot must bear the name and class of the voter who hands it in, and no one not a member of the Junior or Sophomore classes may vote. Sophomores and Juniors, furthermore, may only vote for members of their own class...
Hulking Jesse Jones, 68, 6 ft. 3, 220 lb., grabbed Meyer's coat lapels, shook him like an angry bear. Meyer's pince-nez shattered on the floor. Then Meyer, 66, 5 ft. 10, 186½lb., who took boxing lessons for two years from Heavyweight Champion James J. Corbett, came up with a haymaker aimed straight at the Jones jaw. It missed-and other guests pulled the two heavyweights apart...
...Favorite Blonde (Paramount) is sun-kissed Madeleine Carroll, nut-brown as a honey bear from her recent Bahaman excursion (TIME, March 9). This time she is the favorite of Comic Bob Hope, who blissfully lets her kick him around for ten reels of good slapsticky melodrama which all concerned seem to enjoy...