Word: dowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though housewives were delighted, businessmen, remembering the 1920 collapse, worried that the commodity slump might get out of hand. Though stock prices fell again last week, putting the Dow-Jones industrials below their post-election lows, there were few other signs of a widespread price drop. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' general index of wholesale prices (food, metals, textiles, etc.) had changed little in a month. The storm, as yet, had blown only on the farms...
First Period: Scoring-Thayer (unassisted), 10:58; Harrison (Gray), 11:18. Penalties-Harrison (elbow check), Dow (holding...
...year ago, the uneasiness on the grain market quickly spread to the stock market. The Dow-Jones industrial average fell 3.52 points for the week to 175.60, wiping out all the gains since mid-December (at the start of this week it dropped again). The New York Cotton Exchange quivered sympathetically; prices tumbled 95? to $1.30 a bale...
...Dow sent "suspicious" tissues to the Medical School's department of Legal Medicine for a careful check following his autopsy last Tuesday night. The analysis was rushed by Alan R. Mortiz, Francis Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine, and last night he and Dow made a final examination in which they specified the "barbiturate poisoning" as direct cause for death...
...more work to dig down well past a man's clubs and organizations and friends and find out if he is a Communist or not. But this work is essential. Otherwise we are going to lose a lot of very good men like Frank Graham; some will be turned dow, some will refuse to work under an implied restriction of their outside activities. Association is a dangerously weak standard by which to condemn a man; until this standard is much further replaced by actual investigation, our security program will be neither just nor efficient...