Word: dows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Measured by the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages, the low point of the Depression was July 8, 1932. On that day the famed stockmarket index sank below 42, lowest level since 1897. After a deal of marching and countermarching in the last days of Herbert Hoover, the stock-market burst upward in the wild inflationary bull market of 1933, and, just before the boom in whiskey shares collapsed that summer, the averages...
...Deal records. Then last March it began to recover from the deep gloom of winter, and by late last month was shooting swiftly toward the old critical point of 108-110. There for a fortnight it wavered uncertainly. Last week in a sudden surge of heavy trading the Dow-Jones average was thrust upward to 114-highest level since...
Following is the text of the report on the Freshman Year which the Freshman Confidential Guide submitted to Dean Leighton yesterday. It was drawn up under the chairmanship of Francis Keppel by Messrs. Allen, Dampeer, Dow, Durant, Graham, Hay, Levine, Shahan, and Vogt...
...been climbing since the middle of March. Last week it flowered in five successive days of million-share trading or better. Brokers got so excited that they began to call up long-lost customers to spread the cheer. Silver stocks led the market (see p. 17), and the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages hit the highest level of the year. But that was the same level as the other New Deal highs of February 1934 and July 1933 and there, balancing better feeling against poorer figures, the stockmarket hung churning...
...members of the Committee are Charles R. Allen of Greenfield, Freshman Class President and hockey captain; John L. Dampeer of Cleveland, Ohio, Conant Prize Scholar and basketball captain; Hume Dow, of Staten Island, New York; Aldrich Durant, Jr. of Cambridge; John MacD. Graham of New York City; John Hay of New York City; Arthur N. Levine of New York City; Philip T. Shahan of Clayton, Missouri; and Paul R. Vogt of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Conant Prize Scholar...