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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years. For Wall Streeters the weekend announcement could not have come at a worse time, for the first impulse of thousands upon thousands of small stockholders was to sell. As the selling orders poured in by wire on Sunday to brokerage houses, the bearish pressure on the market built up to enormous strength. By 8:30 a.m. Monday, brokers who hustled into their offices earlier than usual found out how bad it was going to be. In London and Paris, where U.S. stocks are traded, the markets had opened weak a few hours earlier, with many U.S. stocks down...
LIGHTWEIGHT TRAIN is picking up speed on U.S. railroads. New England's Boston & Maine Railroad has ordered a Talgo train similar to the ones being built for the New Haven and the Rock Island. American Car & Foundry will build the long, low streamliner, have it ready for delivery...
Ford hopes that the new Continental will become as famed as the original, which was first styled by Edsel Ford and custom-built as a personal car. On a trip to Florida Edsel got so many requests for a car like his that he put the Continental into production in 1940. Though Ford collected dividends in prestige for the 5,322 Continentals it built, it lost money on every car. When the company skidded into the red after World War II, it stopped making them. Three years ago, after Ford moved solidly back in the black, Benson Ford proposed that...
...food in the wilderness, in desperation ate their horses to keep alive. Emerging on the western slope, in Idaho's Weippe Prairie, they gorged on camas bulbs (which made them sick) and dog meat (which they found surprisingly good). On the banks of the Clearwater River they built canoes and floated down the Clearwater and the Snake to the Columbia River near present-day Pasco, Wash. Harassed by squat, fish-eating Indians, who tried to steal their possessions, they navigated the Columbia's treacherous rapids and passed through the Cascades...
...climax came one day when the canoes were plowing through rain, fog and high, rolling waves near the mouth of the Columbia. For an instant the mist parted, and the men sighted the Pacific ("O! the joy," Clark noted). On the Oregon shore, they built a salt cairn and wintered. Clark cut his name on a pine tree and added (in case they didn't make it back): "By Land from the U. States in 1804 & 1805." They celebrated Christmas and New Year's among coastal tribes with flattened heads, who made life miserable by pilfering their supplies...