Word: dows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slumped more in the past three months than in the 13 months following the 1929 market smash With such figures in the headlines, mostly a week to two weeks behind hand and only a further decline in view, there was ample reason for renewed fall of stocks, and week Dow-Jones industrial averages set a new low of 113.6, then bounced back ten points in the customary rally...
...Ladd (H) defeated R.B. Graham (M.I.T.), 15-7, 15-7, 15-7; C.H. Stern (H) defeated N.T. Dow (M.I.T.), 15-4, 15-7, 19-14, R.G. Millar (M.I.T.), defeated L.P. Marvin (H), 15-6, 17-15, 11-15, 15-13, J. Glidden (H) defeated I. Schwartz (M.I.T.), 15-13, 10-15, 16-13, 15-5; D. De Kruif (H) defeated I. Peskoo (M.I.T...
...City of New York last week was given $50,000 to create a gallery depicting the history of the New York Stock Exchange. When the gallery is completed there may well be mention of last week's market, for prices sagged broadly to a new 1937 low. Dow-Jones industrial averages closed one day at 118.13, lowest closing point since June 1935 and only a fraction above the depths touched by prices on "Black Tuesday," October 19. U. S. Steel dropped...
...some time, major influence upon the New York stock market were the inspirational efforts of Washington. Three weeks ago, when the Federal Reserve Board reduced margin requirements, prices rose in the best weekly rally since the smash started. Then they fell back. By early last week the Dow-Jones industrial averages had set a new low of 123.9. Railroads at 31.7 and utilities at 21.3 were almost at their bottoms...
...Electric Power & Light to $14.25, up $2; Columbia Gas & Electric to $10.50, up $2; North American to $23.50, up $3.50. Industrial and railroad issues tagged along, U. S. Steel bouncing hastily back from a new low of $51 to $60.50. At week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average was back to 133 and Wall Streeters, eyeing Washington with something like glee for the first time in many a moon, had justification for holding that sweet are the uses of electricity...