Word: dows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Hugh Bancroft, 54, publisher, president of Dow, Jones & Co. (world's largest purveyors of finance news and ticker service, publishers of the Wall Street Journal) and of Financial Press Co. (Barren's Weekly, the Philadelphia. Financial Journal, the Boston News Bureau); apparently by his own hand (coal gas poisoning); in Cohasset, Mass. A medical examiner said Bancroft entered a blacksmith shop on his estate, sealed the doors and windows, lighted a fire in the forge...
...Taylor & Co. boasts Martini & Rossi's vermouths, Dow's ports, Cusenier's cordials...
...surplus of the new bank, to be known as the Manufacturers National, had already been raised. Only one thing was still needed: a charter from the Comptroller of the Currency. John Ballantyne, one-time chairman of the First National, was selected as president. The board of directors included Alex Dow, president of Detroit Edison Co., George R. Fink, president of National Steel (maker of much automobile steel), Murray W. Sales, Wesson Seyburn, Clifford B. Longley (Ford attorney) and Edsel Ford. Many a time in the past has Henry Ford, dissatisfied with purchasing this material or that, undertaken to manufacture...
...Exchange was going to close; speculators were jumping out of windows; President Roosevelt had had an apoplectic stroke the night before; he had died at noon and was being laid out in the White House! Then a little hope came back, prices rallied, but the net fall of the Dow Jones average for industrials was 7.55 for the day. In three days the average had lost 19.96 points of its 59 gained since March...
While a numerous section of humanity watched their swift lingers, four girl students of the University of Washington last week beat other college girls in a typewriting contest in Chicago. High school and business college girls competed. Best of all was Dorothy Dow of Cleveland's West Technical High School who did 96 words a minute. Nevertheless the University of Washington girls' performances helped their professor of education, Dr. August Dvorak, toward fortune. For Dr. Dvorak invented the arrangement of letters and symbols on the typewriter keyboards with which his students won at Chicago. The Dvorak-Dealey* Simplified...