Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Danny Kaye, guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic for its Pension Fund Benefit, had Carnegie Hall patrons collapsing with guffaws. Unable to read music, Conductor Kaye directed some favorite classics surprisingly well, had audience and orchestra falling from their chairs by: 1) kissing two girl harpists and a bull fiddler; 2) parodying common conductorial techniques, i.e., "the coffee grinder" and "the meat chopper"; 3) arguing with his oboist over an A; 4) falling into the cellos during a crescendo. Said Kaye: "It's the greatest feeling of neurotic power in the world...
...Army in the autumn of 1876 to help avenge the death of General George A. Custer; in Pawnee, Okla. The expeditions assisted by the Pawnees were moderately successful, but never got the best of the Sioux victors of the Little Bighorn River: Chief Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull...
Stumbling Bull. This calm view of the recession was reflected in normally jittery Wall Street. The bull market had been the first to take fright last year. After hitting a July peak of 522.77 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, only a shadow below the alltime high, the bull started to slip, stumbled to his knees in October, when the average hit 419.79. As a result, shrewd investors have long since discounted the current news...
...predicts that the bull will soon jump to his feet and start pawing the ground again. He will first need a heavy feeding of richer sales and earnings. Yet many investors are buying such stocks as U.S. Steel, Montgomery Ward, Libbey-Owens-Ford for the long pull. Says San Francisco Investment Broker George Davis of Davis, Skaggs & Co.: "These stocks are being bought by men with eyes over the hump, while the others are all moaning about 'what...
Prices & Productivity. Last week, as the recession appeared near the bottom of the slide, few thoughtful businessmen were anxious to force the tired bull to his feet too soon. They fear the speedy return of inflation, since prices, which normally drop in a recession, have held up surprisingly. Though many retail prices and some wholesale items dropped, the level of the nation's basic commodities is unchanged. The reason, say businessmen, is the organized labor philosophy that good business or bad, wages-and thus prices-must go up every year. Therefore, steelmen refuse to cut prices, not only because...