Word: bearishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Market? There were indications that Nazi deviltry was not wholly responsible for last week's bearish market. Stocks rarely go up when falling commodity prices reflect business unwillingness to bid for materials for future use. This unwillingness was already apparent by July 22 when the Department of Labor's wholesale price index fell sharply on its way to a new post-Depression low (74.8% of 1926), again in early August when both the Dow-Jones Index of future commodity prices and Moody's index of spot commodity prices slumped sharply...
...graduated 25 years ago. In 1917 he began furnishing impotent men with goat glands, and by 1933 when he discontinued the treatment (for simpler methods) he had performed 5,000 "rejuvenating" operations. Since 1933 he has treated his hopeful patients with the blue fluid which Dr. Fishbein was so bearish about and with simple prostate operations. For a series of treatments with ⅓-ounce ampules of the drug, Dr. Brinkley often charges $250. Operations sometimes cost as much...
...specere, to see. In ancient Rome the appearance and behavior of birds-whether they were eagles, vultures, owls, crows, or ravens, which direction they flew, how they ate grains of corn-determined whether public assemblies should be held, whether armies should attack, whether merchants should be bullish or bearish...
...weeks after he announced that the greatest bull market in history had ended: "On the late Charles H. Dow's well-known method of reading the stock market movement from the Dow-Jones averages, the twenty railroad stocks on Wednesday, October 23 confirmed a bearish indication given by the industrials two days before. Together the averages gave the signal for a bear market in stocks after a major bull market with the unprecedented duration of almost six years...
Franklin Roosevelt's new Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, made his maiden speech before the American Club of London. Said he of the U. S.: "As many of you know, I have been bearish for a year. I feel a little ashamed of it when I see what confidence Europeans have in my country's future." Said Bullish Joe Kennedy of Europe: "There will be no general European war for the rest of this year at least...