Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole TV boom that shaky? Worried Wall Streeters who had thought that the TV bubble might burst and dampen the whole market were changing their minds. Many TV stocks were actually living up to their high speculative hopes. For example, Emerson, though it was still selling around $35, had just turned in first-half profits of $3.47, thus was priced no more than a conservative five times its earnings. "You can call it speculation," said one thoughtful stock-market official last week, "but the figures on the use of television sets seem to lend a firm base to this kind...
...oxygen and regular hydrogen in water would be enough to dampen the chain reaction, so that the water would never explode...