Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that final hour of trading, 2,500,000 shares changed hands and prices tumbled crazily: Auburn Auto, which had recently sold as high as 514, lost 77 points to close at 260; Adams Express, which had once been up to 750, lost 96 to close at 440. The closing bell stopped the selling. All night, brokers sent out frantic telegrams to the hundreds of thousands who had bought on margin, putting up as little as 10% of the cash price of the stock. Most of them had no more cash to put up to cover their losses. Thus the stage...
...From the bell's first ring, it was panic; by day's end an incredible 16,410,030 shares had been dumped, capping the selling that had wiped out an estimated $25 billion in stock values. Not until 2½ hours after the market's close did the tickers catch up and carry the final sale. There was no longer any attempt by bankers or anybody else to stem the collapse. In just six days the whole world of easy prosperity had been buried...
...Harvard center forward position, Coach Bruce Munro tired a new plan, alternating Jim Bell and Drehmel. The project met with some degree of success, for Drehmel's feeding style was a sharp--and confusing--contract to Bell's crashing, pounding style...
Coach Munro is sticking to the same lineup that clicked against Navy last Saturday. This means that Jim Bell, a crasher, at center forward and Rick Drake, a good tackler, at center half. "Drake is our sparkplug," says Munro, "He's everywhere. He gets the ball and really feeds it forward...
Batchelder, g; Harrop, lfb; Scully, rfb; Miller, lhb; Drake, chb; Pantelconi, rhb; Wolf or Johnson, ol; Spivak, il; Bell, cf; Weiss, ir; Goldstein...