Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear of it. "You're no peon, to work in the lettuce fields," she argued. But Serrano, a short, husky Tarascan Indian, overruled her. "Imagine!" he said. "They pay 80 American cents an hour, 130 pesos a day. We can get another cow or two. In time, a bull. Dresses for you and our daughters." His vision of himself as a bountiful provider grew, and he even talked of buying a farm...
...just as bullish. The stock market usually declines around income-tax time as investors sell securities to pay their taxes. But last week the market rose every day. The Dow-Jones industrial average hit 425-25, up 7.25 points for the week and 5.77 points above the previous bull-market high in March...
...moment Sir Winston Churchill was there in all his glory-venerable as Queen Victoria, familiar as Big Ben. Next moment, or so it seemed, the dauntless old figure had vanished, and Britain had the feeling that John Bull himself was gone. At 4:25 p.m., in the quiet of an April afternoon, 80-year-old Sir Winston Spencer Churchill put on his black frock coat and drove off to see the Queen...
...Greece, the first letter of the alphabet was originally written Ψ, a bull's head resting on its side. In Hebrew, it was written Ψ. The astronomical sign for the constellation Taurus is Ψ which resembles the later Greek letter Ψ. The Chinese Luna zodiac sign for the same constellation was six stars Ψ, in the shape of a bull's head, while the sign of the Chinese Luna zodiac was Niu, the "ox" which in primitive form, resembled the head...
...Well, that certainly is news to me . . . That is quite a discouragement to short selling, isn't it?" Clean Record. Was anything really wrong with the market? Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Ralph Demmler gave Wall Street a clean bill of health for its conduct during the big bull market, made it clear that SEC is fully capable of regulating the nation's stock exchanges. From another witness, U.S. Steel Corp.'s Chairman Benjamin Fairless, came more cheerful news. Said Fairless. "I personally think we are on the threshold of one of the greatest periods of prosperity...