Word: dowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, there was evidence that Wall Street's lusty bull market was ready to take the end of the German war in its stride. In six bustling days of trading, the market climbed. At week's end, the Dow-Jones industrial averages were up to 164.71, highest point since the end of the booming bull market...
...weekend, Wall Streeters had a chance to take thought of the new President in the White House. What they decided caused them to buy heavily when the market opened this week. On Monday, 2,500,000 shares were traded, biggest volume in nine months. In the surging rise, Dow-Jones industrial averages hit 162.43, highest since September...
...hectic days the Dow-Jones averages of industrials tumbled to 156.34-down 5.18 points. Rail averages were down 2.23 points. On Friday, when traders unloaded 2,000,000 shares, the drop in values was the sharpest for any day in 16 months...
When the officers managed, after a half hour's fighting, to reach Mountie headquarters in Heriot Street, the mob followed and besieged them. Every win dow in the building was smashed with ice chunks. Two, possibly three of the blue Chevrolets belonging to the Mounties were overturned and badly damaged. All the glass in another car was shattered...
Stocks & Bonds. In the financial markets the flood tide of rising prices ran full and swift. The bull market was reaffirmed as the Dow-Jones industrial average reached 158.24, highest point since November 1938, while the rail averages were at a new year high, back to August 1937 levels. The Dow-Jones average of 40 bonds soared to 106.1-the highest peak since 1915 when the series was started. War babies and peace stocks equally shared the boom. Surplus money had found another haven, where it made even more surplus...