Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardest fall in nearly four years, but picked itself up nimbly by week's end with only a few bruises. On the first day of trading, the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 14.78 points. Not since President Eisenhower's heart attack in September 1955 had a market break been so sharp...
Many stocks, including some electronics, regained much of the lost ground before week's end. Wall Street took the break in stride, cautious but unfrightened. With prospects ahead of an economic spurt once the steel strike ends, most Wall Streeters expect the averages to break through the 700 mark before year...
...space-age electronics stocks, which have soared giddily in recent months. Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. fell 23¾ points on the American Exchange. So great was the confusion when trading in Fairchild Camera was suspended temporarily that Exchange President Edward T. McCormick went onto the floor to discuss the break at Fairchild's trading post. Other electronics stocks followed; Texas Instruments fell 3⅞, IBM 2½. Zenith 4⅛, Litton...
Though there was talk of a "peace scare," Wall Street agreed that the market was due for a technical correction after a headlong rise from last spring, saw the break as an opportunity for earnings and dividends to catch up with soaring prices. The drop was accelerated by news of the exotic fuel cutback (see Aviation) and poor earnings in aircraft companies...
Invented. As the carnival death watch continues, townspeople chained in the Platonic cave of illusion begin "to break through to the heart of the dark mystery which was themselves." By the time Isaac has at last reported that Jasper is dead, a number of astonishing and preposterously pat character changes have taken place. A Greek restaurateur, sexually disturbed because his fat wife is not Jean Harlow, has begun to look upon her with fond normalcy. Jasper's half-illiterate old man, a skirt chaser and Homeric hell raiser in his bachelorhood, experiences a blinding illumination and begins to sound...