Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bull market of the '20s, the Journal paid too much attention to stocks & bonds; in the depression it dropped nearly half its circulation. By wider coverage of all economic news and by trying to be more readable, President Kenneth C. Hogate brought it back. Hogate, who died in February, was succeeded by bright Bernard Kilgore, like his predecessor a Phi Beta Kappa from DePauw...
...investors well informed, there had not been so much confusion in years. The trouble was that the experts violently disagreed on whether the upsurge in stocks in the last two months was a short term upswing in the bear market that had started last fall, or a new, rampaging bull market...
Said Francis I. du Pont & Co.'s Thomas W. Phelps, a leading exponent of the Dow theory: "The stage is set; if the industrials and rails now can advance above their February highs, the bull market will be signaled." On July 11, the industrials broke through the February high, but the rails failed to follow...
...high of 186.85. Once more, the rails failed to follow the breakthrough. To the strict Dow theorists, it was still a bear market, though some were trying to weasel through a semantic loophole: the so-called bear market might be only a large scale reaction in the wartime bull market...
...Retreating Bear. Such dogged chart-watching and weaseling aroused the scorn of the Herald Tribune's C. Norman Stabler, loud exponent of the horse-sense school. He contended that the rally last May was actually the start of a new bull market. Stabler's thesis was that the market, having slumped in a period of rising production (see chart), had counted too heavily on a recession which has not yet developed. And alltime record earnings (see Earnings) made stocks bargains which people were sure to buy, thus bid up prices. (He ignored the fact that the rise began...