Word: bearishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Brain-Truster Tugwell, tarnished glamor boy of the New Deal, had a chance in Puerto Rico to make a political comeback. Thanks largely to the good offices of bearish, sad-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin, President of Puerto Rico's Senate, he seemed to be making...
...years: His personality is rough and bearish; he may run rather than walk. He can build a tower of six or seven cubes, insert a square block in a square hole. He also throws and kicks a ball, knows 50 words, puts dolls to bed, talks about his experiences, asks for food and toilet...
...Weber, in spite of the fact that he was the first U. S. modernist, and is still going strong, is bearish on the whole issue. Says he: "Modern art is a barren field whose soil needs spiritual humus to turn it over for the planting of new seeds...