Word: dowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweated ecstatically through two 2,000,000-share days and even one 2,517,340-share day, the busiest in over a year. Typical of the furious buying & selling: 1,111,570 shares changed hands in two hours, and twice during the week the tickers lagged. Up went the Dow-Jones industrial averages to 147.28, highest since May 10, 1940, when the Nazi strike into the Lowlands started the market on a long slide down. The rail average rose to 41.23, a seven-year peak...
...been plenty of reason for optimism. Since March, the New York Stock Exchange has quivered on every D-day rumor. But last week, taking its courage firmly in hand, the Exchange: 1) had its busiest day of the year, turning over 1,193,080 shares; 2) saw the Dow-Jones industrial average rise to 142.24, a new peak...
...soon can U.S. industry be freed of rigid Government controls-and how much of it can be freed? On this important subject, the U.S. last week heard two important debaters: OPA Boss Chester Bowles and Dr. Williard H. Dow, white-haired, scholarly president of Michigan's Dow Chemical...
...From Dr. Dow, whose company, almost singlehanded, saved the U.S. from a critical magnesium shortage (TIME, March 20), came a resounding snort. In Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, after receiving the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Chemists, he cried: "We are being warned against the dangers of freedom. ... All of which is rot. We are being told that ... we must ease out of controls and that chaos would follow their sudden ending. By the very nature of our present controls we cannot ease out of them. We can only ease into permanent control. . . . Whatever may be the seeming...
...bearing ore was over 200 miles distant, the plant was so poorly located that ore had to be shipped by rail some 950 miles to reach it. Cost of the plant rocketed from $70,000,000 to $133,000,000 ($1.81 per lb. of magnesium capacity v. 79? for Dow...