Word: dowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. John Drew Colt, 26. insurance salesman son of Ethel Barrymore; and Marjorie Dow Bancroft, 27, Boston socialite; he for the first time, she for the second; in Elkton...
...Street. They were rewarded by two million-share days. Although "X" hopped to a little over 57, up 3⅛, before the rally faded, closed the week at 59, businessmen made their estimate of what Steel's dividend meant for business improvement: virtually nothing. For the week the Dow-Jones industrials average rose only 1.18, to close at 147.95. At this week's beginning the market was back in the doldrums...
...layman's eye, Ethyl Gasoline Corp. is pretty nearly an ideal business.*About 70% of all gasoline consumed in the U. S. is Ethyl-treated. The company does not make tetraethyl lead (Du Pont does); doesn't extract bromine from sea water for ethylene dibromide (Dow Chemical Co. does); does not make gasoline nor sell it (123 refiners, 11,000 jobbers...
...latter readers still remember as the day England and France declared war on Germany. The first date Allen recalls with sketchy vividness. The day after Labor Day, 1929, when the Dow-Jones average of stockmarket prices hit an all-time high, was a scorcher from Nebraska to Maine. On the streets you could see a few back less dresses and bare legs, practically no tinted nails. Bobs were shingled in back, banged on brows, swept on cheeks. A man named Garnet Carter of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., got on a train for Miami, where he was to install the first Miniature...
...stock market did not wait for the Federal Reserve announcement. The Dow-Jones Average of 30 Industrials, whose War II's high was 155.92, broke to a new wartime low of 144.65. Conspicuous among those leading the market down was Wall Street's No. 1 counter, U. S. Steel. From 1938 until last summer Big Steel was called the highest-priced stock on the board because its price was more than infinity times its (zero) earnings. Last week Dow-Jones estimated that the post-peace steel rush had netted Big Steel $2.70 a share for the year...