Word: dows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Serving with the faculty is a group of students including W. Tucker Dean '37, treasurer of the committee, Jack D. Andrews '39, Hume Dow '38, Francis Keppel '38, Rolf Kaltenborn '37, and others...
...stock speculators rushed to sell on news of Britain's higher industrial profits tax. In New York the market slide which began in March became a small avalanche, carrying U. S. Steel common down 10 points to 98, Chrysler down 6, Allied Chemical down 13, and the Dow-Jones industrial stock average down 6½ points, including the biggest single day's drop since July 26, 1934. Market observers saw in this no mere repetition of the milder reaction in April 1936, with which it had a curious day by day parallel. At week...
...three-year appointments: Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Jr., Instructor in Mineralogy; Robert K. Merton, Instructor in Sociology and Tutor in the Division of Sociology; Arthur C. Comey '07, Associate Professor of Regional Planning; Edwin Mims, Jr., Instructor in Government and Tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics; Sterling Dow '25, Instructor in History and Tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics; Alden B. Greninger, Instructor in Metallurgy; and Ralph R. Hultgren, Instructor in Metallurgy...
...Dow-Jones averages record that on Dec. 12, 1936 the price of bonds reached the highest level in U. S. history. On that day the averages went above 106, which was more than 40 points above the Depression low. Failing to break its previous mark in a January rally, the bond market has been headed steadily downward ever since. After a wide-open break in Government issues last week there were few who dared predict that bond prices would better their old highs during the life of the present business cycle...
...point out that in comparison with an average gain of 32% for general management trusts, Standard Statistics' 90-stock average rose only 27.9% the New York Times' 50-stock average only 21.1%, the 782 common stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange about 25%. The Dow-Jones averages showed a 24.5% rise in industrials, 32.5% in rails, 17.9% in utilities. Actually the comparison was even more favorable to the trusts because part of their assets were in cash bonds, or preferred stocks. Moreover, the trusts paid taxes and set up tax reserves which, as Tri-Continental dutifully...