Word: bullishness
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...British bull's-eye is Four Feathers (United Artists-Alexander Korda), memorializing one of the most bullish turns British imperialism ever took: the gaudy slaughter at Omdurman with which Horatio Herbert Kitchener in 1898 avenged the massacre of General Gordon and the British garrison at Khartum, 13 years before. For Four Feathers Hungarian Alexander Korda, the Union Jack's most industrious cinematic flagwaver, sent his director-brother, Zoltan, and practically his entire cast to the Sudan, where they stumbled over some of the actual shells Kitchener had left behind, tottered in temperatures of 120° in the breeze...
Auto Sales: Only 30% ahead of 1938's subnormal level, auto sales clearly justified no production revival to the not so high 1939 peak. General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr., long bullish, complained last week that the spring recovery had fizzled: G. M.'s May sales fell 3,559 from April, the industry sold about 10,000 units more than in April, but not so many as in March...
...college [according to bullish Mr. White] is a good investment. . . . The buyer usually gets a minimum of 6% on his money . . . in some cases . . . $50,000 a year...
...long-term Government-bond speculation, Expert Porter is bullish: ". . . Whatever occurs, holders of Government securities may be confident that the nation's fiscal authorities will guard their interests in the market so long as the Treasury faces a tremendous program of debt refunding." When she is asked about short-term prospects, she quotes the forecast of an anonymous financier: "The stock market, sir, will fluctuate...
Manhattan kids last week had their first chance to go coasting since Thanksgiving. In its puckish fashion the stock-market also went tobogganing. Somewhat to the confusion of Wall Street, which was generally bullish, prices continued a slide that began with the new year. The Dow-Jones industrial stock average got down to 146.52, barely above the November...