Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million to the family purse, all of which he shrewdly employed in the stock market and in building Remington into one of the nation's biggest small-arms manufacturers. There are no children: Dodge's only son, M. Hartley, died at 22 in a 1930 auto crash...
...American investors. They refused to panic at the tragic death of President Kennedy and thereby averted a possible worldwide crash...
...virtue common to all Doris Day comedies: continence. But this time, James Garner appears to be playing the role long patented by Doris. Sex threatens him, and poor Jim has a tough time staying chaste. Garner is Doris' husband, but she has been missing since a plane crash five years earlier, so he marries Polly Bergen. The newlyweds have no sooner departed for a honeymoon in Monterey than out of a Navy sub hops this cute freckled blonde wearing blue denims and a sailor hat. "You're not too late!" screeches Doris' mother-in-law, Thelma Ritter...
...began, the economy was sluggish and tired after a 1962 that seemed to have sapped most of its energies. Unemployment stood at a distressing 5.8% of the work force, the G.N.P. was running $15 billion behind projections, and the stock market had not yet fully recovered from the resounding crash it took on Blue Monday, May 28, 1962. Many economists thought that the best that 1963 had in store was a business sag-hopefully too mild to call a recession-that would begin before midyear. Government forecasters were willing to project only a timid 4% growth in the G.N.P., which...
...Wide Eyes. On Wall Street, the stock market took 15 months to recover from its Blue Monday crash. Rebounding quickly from the initial shock of President Kennedy's assassination, it went on to set records. Last week the Dow-Jones industrial average hit a new high of 767.21. The little man is buying stocks again, but there is less wide-eyed speculation, and fewer stock prices are way out of line with earnings than when the market hit its precrash high two years ago. Many Wall Streeters look for stock prices to stay about the same...