Word: dows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks in a steep slalom around such) formidable obstacles as reports of record farm income for 1937, miscellaneous bullish statistics, encouragement from the Federal Reserve Board and optimistic comments by Governmental bigwigs. Last week, having dropped a breathless 55 points from the summer peak of 190 set by the Dow-Jones industrial averages on Aug. 14, the market did a graceful telemark around still another formidable obstacle-prosperous third-quarter earning statements...
...universities have been raided heavily since 1933 by Washington. Last week the tables were turned when Northwestern University robbed Washington of one of its most brilliant young men, 41-year-old Fred Dow Fagg Jr., who in seven months, as Director of the Bureau of Air Commerce, had transformed that division from an Administration headache to a smile...
...thin market like a locomotive. All day in what swiftly became a 2,400,000 share avalanche, Steel showed the way downward, sagging to $80 on sales of only 83,600 shares, and the whole list tumbled along with it, setting another low mark for 1937. The Dow-Jones industrial averages were off nearly eight points to 146.2. At one incredible moment there was not even a bid for General Motors, whose 43,500,000 shares of stock in the first six months this year earned some $2.50 apiece and whose U. S. sales in August set a record...
...ambulance was first announced with Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology in the Medical Schools as head of the Harvard Committee of students and faculty for Medical Aid to Spanish Democracy. He was also head of a similar national group. W. Tucker Dean '37 and Hume Dow '38 were the student heads of the drive...
...goes down must come up. But the market did not go up far, did not stay up long. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange, after soaring above 2,000,000 shares thrice in a month, fell back into its recent rut. By the peak of the rally, the Dow-Jones industrial averages had climbed only from...