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Looking Abroad. A third fixed belief is that Allied victories, while supposedly bearish for U.S. securities, are bullish for foreign securities, particularly for those of countries where postwar fiscal problems will be most acute. Last week Italian Superpower common jumped 45%, closed at 14 times its 1943 low. Superpower's chief recommendation to investors is that it is now one of the two existing avenues for speculation in war-ravaged Italy. (It, like International Power Securities, is a U.S. company holding investments in Italy; trading in all direct Italian obligations was frozen by the U.S. Treasury...
Luckily TIME'S early readers were much less bearish. For instance, within a month of the first issue, Charter Subscriber Thomas W. Lamont told his friends that TIME was "a brilliant feat." Colonel House said the infant magazine "filled a long-felt need." Bernard M. Baruch proclaimed TIME "the best condensation I have seen...
...Yale. Bearish on futures in business and Wall Street, Yalemen don't expect to make much money any more. They foresee a vastly changed post-war world centered more & more in Washington. But they think there will still be a solid place for college men. Meanwhile, a "Yale Plan" has been worked out with Army & Navy whereby students may continue with their elected majors but add war-geared physics, math, electronics, etc. The entire student body is now obliged to take physical training three times a week under Yale Swimming and Olympic Coach Bob Kiphuth. In bull sessions...
...this. What made us sit up and scratch our chins was the obvious difference in approach toward Eastern and Western colleges. All Harvard and Yale rated was a few dry comments about "No 'talent scouts' have appeared this year, as of old, from big U. S. corporations" or, "Bearish on futures in business and Wall Street, Yale men don't expect to make much money any more...
This compares with only 23 bearish dividend actions in all April, only eight in May 1941. The wave of bad news for stockholders is swelling. The news comes impartially from big & little corporations, munitions-makers and peace-goods producers alike. Reasons given are almost always the same: 1) lower profits because of higher taxes, 2) the need to save cash for emergencies. Examples...