Word: dowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some day in the not-so-distant future, housewives may turn into ladies of leisure: they may have a trim, prefabricated power plant to do most of their house work. Dr. John J. Grebe, head physicist of Dow Chemical Co., has blueprinted a compact, 3,500-lb. unit which will cook, wash the dishes, wash, dry and iron clothes, freeze food and provide all bathroom facilities. The whole unit, says Grebe, is only a little bigger than an automobile and will sell for about the same price...
...time the New York Stock Exchange closed, 2,940,000 shares had been I ought & sold, the largest day's business in about five years. The break was the worst in 26 months (according to the New York Times Averages), in three and a half months (.by the Dow-Jones Industrial Averages). Next day, the market fell again, but more slowly...
...week's end, stocks were picking up, and the Dow-Jones Industrial Averages had edged up to 165.29. But they were still down almost four points...
Those who still cling to the Dow-Jones theory thought that last week's break was a warning: the market is going down temporarily. But they were a minority. The bulk of the brokers were still sure that, as long as the U.S. has so much cash and comparatively little to buy but stocks, the market has no place...
...Beta Kappa elected six honorary members of the Harvard Chapter at, its meeting: Robert F. Brad ford, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: John H. Bradley, of Lowell, a geologist, author, and former Associate professor of Geology at the University of Southern California; Starting Dow, associate professor of History at Harvard; Edward V. Huntington, professor of Mathematics, emeritus, at Harvard; Nathan M. Pusey, President of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin; and Wallace Steven, of Hartford, a lawyer and poet