Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend Ed Martin asked him to help with the Martin campaign for governor in 1942, Jim Duff had long been neck-deep in Pennsylvania politics. As a delegate to the state convention in 1912, he helped swing Pennsylvania away from William Howard Taft and into Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose herd. He was a constant rebel against Joe Grundy's local and state machines; he remains a Bull Mooser to this...
...week they sat quiet, letting other government critics do most of the talking. Party Chief Maurice Thorez had warned the comrades: "Above all, dignity." Once Bidault remarked that if Europe was split, it was Russia's fault. Fernand Grenier, Communist deputy from Saint-Denis, rose like an angry bull. But Thorez turned like lightning and imperiously shushed...
...economy last week felt a strong new shot of inflation. The prospect of higher prices and steady profits-and the announcement of Air Force and Navy orders (see Aviation)-pushed the bull market to a new high. The parade was led by oil and aircraft stocks, notably Grumman, which felt prosperous enough to declare a 100% stock distribution (the stock rose five points in two days). The Dow-Jones industrial average...
Confidence in the Future. What the bull wagon needed, if it was going to get rolling, was a public push. The "little fellow," who traditionally gets in the market just in time to get cleaned out, was not taking any big chances yet. Said Francis Adams Truslow, president of the New York Curb Exchange: "Investors have been hesitating for the past several years. They are just beginning to exhibit their confidence in the future...
Such tasty bait as this, Wall Streeters hoped, would sooner or later lure in the public. They had some pious arguments in favor of it: a big bull market, for one thing, would not only fatten brokers' commissions, but would permit industry to raise some of the capital, through stock issues, that it badly needs for expansion. One simple recipe, favored by both Schram and Truslow to attract more investors: cut margins...