Word: dows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honorable mention in the Undergraduate awards was given for essays by Hume Dow '38, of St. George, New York, on "The Poetry of Cecil Day Lewis"; by Courtney C. D. Smith '38, of Iowa City, Iowa, on "Tears of Eternity"; and by Donald R. Griffin '38, of Barnstable, on "Phantom Shapes that Hamt the Dusk...
...does not strike very close to home to tell the average U. S. citizen that commodity prices are at 50% of the 1924-26 norm (Dow-Jones). Index figures always seem a little theoretical. Last week, however, the public had plenty of opportunity to be impressed as dollars & cents first-quarter reports for many U. S. businesses put Depression in terms that anyone could understand. With the exception of a few fortunate industries, the figures were unanimous in showing that business has taken a tremendous beating in the first three months of 1938. Samples...
...plans would benefit Alleghany bondholders, that Guaranty's claim to impartiality was exploded when it rejected as possible "impartial" directors for Chesapeake such bigwigs proposed by Young as Pan American Airways' Juan Trippe, U. S. Steel's Edward R. Stettiaius Jr., Manufacturers Trust's Harvey Dow Gibson...
...were at a new low since 1934 but gold was pouring into the country at a rate which showed that the rest of the world still thinks the U. S. the safest place to cache its valuables. The stock market proceeded to slip from 107 to 98 on the Dow-Jones industrial scale. These mixed statistics could be interpreted almost any way. But both Henry Ford and Jesse Jones chose to be optimistic...
...were too busy reading that U. S. Steel was down to $44, U. S. Rubber to $25, American Telephone & Telegraph to $117.50, N. Y. Central to $10.50, Pennsylvania R. R. to $15. Westinghouse to $70, Electric Bond & Share to $5, Chrysler to $41. Gloomiest statistic of all was the Dow-Jones industrial average, 106.6, lowest point since June...