Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common in Lawrence, Mass., a skinny Yankee youngster in knee pants worked his way eellike through an agitated mob to the foot of the bandstand. He looked up at a one-eyed giant who slashed at the air with great fists, roared like the Bull of Bashan: "Only by one big union of the working class and mass action can we hope for the final victory ... I would smash the ballot box with...
Died. Colonel James Layton Ralston, 66, Canada's bull-dogged wartime Minister of National Defense, whose demand that home-defense draftees ("zombies") be shipped overseas forced a Cabinet crisis and his resignation in 1944; of a heart ailment; in Montreal...
...chartists had a rough clue in past performance. After previous bull-market "confirmations" (breakthroughs), the Dow-Jones industrials had a total rise from 30 points...
Nevertheless, even the most religious followers of the Dow theory knew that this was no guaranteed guide to the future. In effect, the breakthrough last week simply "proved" to the theorists that a bull market had been under way since the 1947 low of 161.38, following the collapse of the big bull market in 1946. But the market had been within 3.65 points of that low mark as recently as March, thus proving that even in the theorists' bull market an investor could lose his shirt...
...opened Monday, a rush of profit-taking chipped off some of Saturday's gains. Then a wave of new buying shoved the industrial averages up 0.19 to 190.44, third new high in as many days. Almost 3,050,000 shares were traded. It looked as if the bull market had its feet firmly planted...