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...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...
First, stock prices plummeted. From Jan. 1 to May 26, which was the blackest day of the bear market, the Dow-Jones industrial average sank from 800 to an eight-year low of 631. During that period alone, the paper loss for securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange was $113 billion, and the nation's 31 million investors lost an average of $3,645 each. The losses were even more severe for stocks on the American Stock Exchange and on the over-the-counter market. The latter came close to collapse for many days during the late...
Back in the Depression-haunted '30s, Hollywood was grinding out musicals; Ginger Rogers, dressed in coins, sang We're in the Money and Fred Astaire sang A Fine Romance. The '70s' Longuettes, bottoming Dow Jones, and massive strikes seem reflections of that epoch. So does Love Story, a bit of leftover tinsel that glows like gold. And who knows? A little Love Story might be good for you. As it happens, the lachrymose Giants won that game...
...Dow Chemical Corp, owns 17,000 acres of the Antle company's land.. The United Farm Workers have called for a boycott of all Dow Chemical products to protest the injunction...