Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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True Talent. For all its hurry (which was in conformity to Hindu custom), the funeral which focused all India's eyes on Bombay last week was worthy of a prince -a fact which would have pleased tough, bull-necked Sardar Patel. The son of a farmer, Patel was 35 before he was able to afford to fulfill his dream of studying law at London's Middle Temple. And though he quickly won a reputation as a formidable criminal lawyer, it was only after Patel joined Gandhi's movement in 1916 that he discovered his true talent-politics...
...home-front czars and caliphs grinding out firm and final decrees to a wage-stabilized, price-controlled, rationed public. But there is also a noticeable absence of vigor and purpose in the U.S. mobilization program, and in most of the men running it; there are no Charles E. Wilsons, "Bull" Jeffers, Bill Knudsens. These are the men who have been trying to catch up to galloping reality with a creeping mobilization...
...began a year ago last spring when four sophomores developed the idea in a bull session. Fred Coburn, Doug Anderson, Dick Rosane, and Phil Scullin were all faced with the same two problems--they felt the need of some new female acquaintances, and they had to keep in shape for other sports during the off-season. House athletics had been suggested, but was scrapped because it did not fulfill the first requirement...
Wall Streeters have grown superstitious about holidays, and with good reason. The crash that ended 1946's bull market followed the long Labor Day weekend. The Memorial Day weekend in 1949 brought another shakeout. But last week the stock market exorcised the hex. In a buying surge the day before Thanksgiving, stocks started up, and kept right on going after the holiday...
...Congress (see above), the Dow-Jones industrials rose to 235.47 (up 4.8 points in a week), the highest since the autumn of 1930. The rails rose to 71.06, highest since 1931. The New York Herald Tribune's closely watched average of 100 stocks finally broke through its 1946 bull market high of 137.45, and reached 137.63, also the highest since...