Word: dows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critical reviews which conclude the issue are timely and well done--especially the excellent essay of Mr. Dow on two recent films, the "Life of Zola" and "Baltic Deputy...
...Samuel Guy Inman, adviser to the U. S. delegates at Buenos Aires, are checked by university professors, Pan American Union authorities and the Office of Education, but not by the State Department, which diplomatically avoids seeing the scripts. These have been in preparation for six months under Dr. William Dow Boutwell, director of the Federal radio project, and Irving Reis, CBS production director...
...York stock market last week slid hissingly back like a long wave receding down a beach. In trading, notable neither for volume nor volatility, prices descended every day, at week's end were back almost to the year's lows set on "black Tuesday," October 19. Dow-Jones industrial averages were down to 125.25, railroads to 31.67, utilities to 21.21. U. S. Steel stood at $53, Allied Chemical at $152, New York Central at $18, Consolidated Edison at $23, General Motors...
...boom and a simultaneous dishoarding of gold under rumors that the U. S. was about to raise the gold value of the dollar. Last week almost the exact reverse of this situation became evident. U. S. commodity prices were almost all at the year's cheapest and the Dow-Jones commodity index declined 3.26 to 52.60, a new low since 1935. Cotton was down to 7.70? per lb., wheat to 86? per bu., copper to 9.06? per lb., lead to 4.67?per lb., rubber to 14? per lb. Though no informed businessman, economist or politician...
Others pointed out that the utility industry had a $3,200,000,000 expansion program, ready to uncork if only the Government would rescind its "death sentence."* Affectionately cheered was white-fringed old Alex Dow, president of Detroit Edison Co., when he pleaded: "To what end is business being guided, anyway? Is investment of their moneys or speculation for profit to be made safe for the stupid and for those overwise in their own conceits- by policing every traveler on that road? Are we to mark the way of the Lord through business laws and ethics according to the specifications...