Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swift & Co., however, cares little about putting on a show front or catering to executive whims. It has its executive vice presidents sitting out in the center of a huge bull pen where they can look right across the desks at their assistants. At Philadelphia's Smith Kline & French Laboratories, the chairman of the board, department heads and general employees all look at the same green-painted walls, rugless floors and utilitarian furniture...
...stock exchanges all over the world, blood brothers of Wall Street's bull were on the rampage last week. Good business abroad, peace, and confidence in the U.S. economy as the bulwark of the free world combined to create the greatest stock boom the world has ever seen...
...have gained an average 38.5% in the past year, prices on the London Exchange last week hit a new 1954-55 high. Transactions in a single day totaled 18.836. highest in more than seven years. Fed by bigger dividends (up 20% in 1954) and high earnings, London's bull market was fattened up last year by some $900 million worth of new capital pouring into the market v. $500 million in 1953. Among the biggest price gains: British Petroleum (formerly Anglo-Iranian), up 144%; Hawker Siddeley aircraft, up 90.6%; Unilever, up 72%; Rolls-Royce...
France. The bull on the Paris Bourse did even better; stock prices were up an average 58% in the past year. Chief reason: peace in Indo-China, which not only helped give a boost to such peace stocks as autos (up 112%) but also brought about repatriation of big French investments in Indo-China. Aciéries de Longwy (steel) jumped from $38 a share to $73; Suez Canal shares rose nearly 50% to $350. Most spectacular gain: Esso Standard of France, which soared almost 1,000% following the discovery of oil near Bordeaux (TIME, Sept...
...stocks rose 80% during the year, as the volume of trading soared from an average 650,000 shares a day to nearly 3,000,000. Among the biggest rises: Siele mercury, up 313% to $19; Fiat motors, up 116% to $2.25. Last week, however, Milan's bull, like Wall Street's (TIME, Jan. 17) stumbled and stopped to catch its breath; the price index dropped...