Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke playing the market. He went to work for General Motors and was earning $35,000 a year as assistant treasurer when he left, in 1929, to become financial adviser to the late John J. Raskob, then top financial man at Du Pont. When Young advised Raskob that the bull market was going to collapse, Raskob fired him for his pessimism...
...Yankee Twang. Captain Blackford, meanwhile, had fought at Bull Run, bivouacked along the Rappahannock, marched to the Confederacy's high-water mark at Gettysburg and returned with the ebbing tide. In victory or defeat, he decided, Pennsylvania held no charms for a Virginian. "Never in my life have I seen so many ugly women." Furthermore, the "men, women and children are all afflicted with a yankee twang...
...time or another most of the 4-H boys & girls and Future Farmers in the state had turned up there for his annual stock-judging contest. He had made headlines when his highly touted bull, T. Royal Rupert 99th, sold for a record-breaking $38,000 (TIME, Jan. 24, 1944), and turned...
...steadily cut down trading on margin until a year ago, when Chairman Eccles decided that inflation had reached "dangerous proportions." To brake the market, he put trading on a cash basis. Now, Marriner Eccles was finally recognizing what the collapse of the big bull market had foretold. Prices were too high and were bound to come down in short order. Last week, they were coming down fast (see Prices...
Long range bull sessions are not so colorful as the discussions conducted in college rooms, the broadcasters complain, since the Federal Communications Commission slaps a $5000 fine on any amateur heard "swearing" or using "indecent language." As a result, one student calls most of his radio conversations "extremely dull...