Word: dowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sign that he would follow the family calling. Educated at Groton and Harvard, his interests were literary and classical. For ten years, as a highbrow publisher (the Dial Press), his heart was in the highlands of Greece. Commuting between Manhattan and Connecticut, he read Ulysses' voyages instead of Dow-Jones averages...
...after this gloomy talk, the stockmarket had its sharpest one-day drop in six months. The Dow-Jones industrial averages fell 4.83 points to 177.05 and continued to slide down 1.21 points the following day. Wall Streeters, who have lately been blaming the "international situation" for the jittery market, promptly put some of the blame on BAE. But commodity prices, which have risen so sharply recently that many besides BAE think they are in for a bad fall, kept right on rising. March wheat futures hit a new 27-year high of 2.64¼ a bushel. How high would they...
Died. Kenneth Craven Hogate, 49, hefty Hoosier publisher of the Wall Street Journal, president of Barren's Publishing Co., chairman of Dow, Jones & Co., Inc. (financial ticker service), close friend and 1944 presidential campaign adviser of Thomas E. Dewey; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...this good news, the stock market reacted as expected. The Dow-Jones industrial averages rose 5.53 points to 180.88, highest point since just before the market collapsed in September...
...major commodities, only heavy metals went up. Even there the trend was mixed. By week's end, the Dow-Jones Commodity futures index was down 2.02 points to 117.56, about the same level as in November just before commodity futures joined the general price rise as OPA controls went off. It would take time for the lowered commodity prices to affect most retail prices. But many a retailer was hastening to clear his shelves of high-priced goods...