Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rising on such good news-and holding steady on bad-the scraggly, unsteady calf that had been born two years ago (TIME, June 14, 1948) had grown into the biggest, heftiest bull that Wall Street had seen since the wild and rampaging days...
More than once the bull had seemed about to die of fright at the scary look of the world. But like the great U.S. industrial boom, which had been prematurely buried time & again, he had refused to play dead...
...Pedigree. But the Bull of 1950 had an entirely different pedigree from the 1929 breed. This time there was no bobtail following of shoeshine boys, elevator operators and other shoestring speculators trying to make a killing with 90% of their stock bought on credit. Tightening-up of margins had ended that. Nor did the Bull of 1950 look like the 1946 animal, when the market was overrun with speculators, the easy-come, easy-go war rich and black-marketeers. This time the bull had fattened on the cash of those who bought for investment-security buyers who were less interested...
...thus pay only 25% on his profits instead of an income tax up to 82%. None of these restrictions and safeguards means that investors can not lose. In Wall Street, a fool can still be separated from his money as fast as anywhere else. But to date, the bull has been a well-behaved animal. How long will he remain...
With the greatest of ease, the bull market kept right on charging up last week. The Dow-Jones industrial average climbed 4.34 points in the best week's rise in over a month. At week's end the average hit a lofty 222.41, highest level in more than 19 years. With the tracks cleared by the end of the railroad strike, the rail average also highballed: it rose 1.40 to 56.96, its best showing in 18 months. The utility average registered an 18-year high...