Word: dows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...support this conclusion abounded. Such sensitive indexes as scrap steel and commodity prices were up. Steel production at 55.1% of capacity was near the year's peak. Automobile output rose, National Distillers Products Corp. filed the first large industrial bond issue ($22,500,000) since November. And the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages climbed to 149.49, a gain of 13 points from the year's low on January...
...Depression I steadily deepened, there was much talk from time to time of "prosperity just around the corner." But the banking figures, as recorded by TIME'S Index, persisted in showing a continuous decline until March 1932. The F.R.B. index and the Dow Jones industrial stock averages did not touch bottom until three months later...
...stockmarket fell last week three days before Barcelona. Stock prices had been weak since the first of the year and when last week's break came they were already back at what Dow theorists call "resistance levels" (146 for Dow-Jones industrial averages, 28.8 for railroads) set by the previous reaction in November and December. Both industrial and railroad averages plummeted through these levels on heavy trading volume...
Manhattan kids last week had their first chance to go coasting since Thanksgiving. In its puckish fashion the stock-market also went tobogganing. Somewhat to the confusion of Wall Street, which was generally bullish, prices continued a slide that began with the new year. The Dow-Jones industrial stock average got down to 146.52, barely above the November...
This drew hearty applause. But it remained for Manufacturers Trust's dignified Harvey Dow Gibson to win the ultimate in stockholder encomiums. When he concluded a lengthy explanation of the banking drought by expressing the belief that "there is, as we enter the new year, less cause for pessimism than there has been for some time," an unidentified stockholder rose to pay him tribute. After fumbling around for words, the hard-pressed man finally gushed: "If I were a woman, I'd say you're wonderful...