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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average of 1% in November. November also saw an increase in help-wanted classified ads for the first time in 14 months. In Paris, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicted a "fairly strong" U.S. business upturn-and a slackening of inflation-for 1971. Last week the Dow-Jones average soared into the mid-800s, the high...
After a year as harrowing as a ride on a runaway roller coaster, the stock market ended 1970 on the rise. The Dow-Jones industrial average started the year at 800, then plummeted to an eight-year low of 631 on May 26. After that, the market began to climb back-haltingly at first, but accelerating notably near year's end. Last week the Dow-Jones average closed 1970 at 839. That was a 4.8% increase over the 1969 close, but still far short of the 1968 high...
...month-long stock market rally sends the Dow-Jones industrials back past 350 toward 500 by New Year's Day and the U. S. Department of Commerce Citizens' Happiness Index rises at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 8.3 per cent, only half of which is attributed to drugs...
...evidence that youth was finally doing something constructive. By the time Earth Day dawned on April 22, ecoactivists of all ages were suffused with a quasi-religious fervor. Many were also armed with petitions and pickets against a growing list of alleged villains of pollution, including Dow Chemical, General Motors and Chicago's Commonwealth Edison...
...investment from abroad has dried up, but some companies are going ahead with ambitious capital projects. Dow Chemical is building a $25 million plastics plant and Bethlehem Steel is completing a $25 million expansion of its iron-mining operation. So far, none of the more than 150 U.S. firms in Chile have given up and left. Though expropriation of most, if not all of them, seems only a matter of time, none are willing to antagonize Allende unnecessarily before knowing just when or where he will strike next. As long as there are Gradualists in his inner policy circles, there...