Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood sound stage, Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 76, peered through his thick-lensed glasses, did an approving doubletake. Object of his scrutiny: Cinemactor James Cagney, 54, his natural resemblance to Halsey startlingly enhanced by makeup, playing Bull Halsey in a movie titled The Gallant Hours, which will depict the Bull's role in winning the Battle of Guadalcanal. Said Cagney: "This film is a labor of love and gratitude to a man who, when the chips were down, performed...
Ironically, it is the law and the methods of its enforcement that have convinced Murtagh, charged with the administration of the law, that drug addiction is less of a legal than a social and medical problem. Murtagh is outraged because bull-necked Federal Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger dismisses the addict as "an immoral, vicious social leper." As the law works, Murtagh points out, multimillionaire underworld masterminds are virtually never caught (Genovese is a rare exception), and neither are the stratified middlemen, who peddle heroin in amounts down to ounces (at $500 an ounce for the pure "horse...
Says M.I.T.'s Robinson: "Within their range, mutual funds can fit the need of almost any investor." They can also find a host of critics. Many critics charge that the funds, along with other institutional buyers, have needled the roaring bull market to artificial highs, that their constant buying, chiefly of blue chips, has helped create the present shortage of stocks. The funds' answer: they hold only 3.4% of all stock on the New York Stock Exchange, and do not hoard it; they turn their shares over faster than the exchange as a whole...
Love Is a Swingin1 Word (Sid Ramin & Orchestra; RCA Victor Stereo). A band that takes off like a Brahma bull tears through a china shop full of familiar items-I Can't Give You Anything But Love, I Wish I Were in Love Again-with wonderful gusto...
Wall Street's golden bull added still more muscle last week. Shrugging off a nip at margin accounts by the Federal Reserve (see below), the U.S. investor drove the market to still another historic high. Led by some of the nation's biggest corporations, stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average rose to 637.04 at midweek. By the final gong at week's end, profit taking had clipped only 2.51 points from the mark to put the weekly gain at 13.17 points...