Word: dows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slips for Sale. The Journal, which has never lived on Wall Street, was started 58 years ago by Charles H. Dow and Edward D. Jones, as a handy summary of the financial news bulletins (called "slips") which they sent by runners to clients. It still works hand in glove with the muttering army of Dow, Jones tickers that replaced the runners...
This question had split the experts into three groups: 1) the Dow theorists, who kept their noses close to their charts...
U.S.C. chose big, affable, 51-year-old Fred Dow Fagg Jr., dean of the faculties at Northwestern University. Fred Fagg is an air-minded administrator whom Franklin Roosevelt once picked to reorganize the Bureau of Air Commerce. Fagg founded Northwestern's Air Law Institute, the nation's first authority on air law. When he became dean in 1939, he started to streamline Northwestern's liberal arts program. Once the university listed 600 liberal arts courses ("Before Fagg, if you wanted to learn about English literature," said a Northwestern professor last week, "you had to take a course...
...market, which had been quiet or sagging during May and June, boiled up with an ominous hiss. Wheat futures rose the permissible limit of 10? a day. July corn jumped to an alltime high of $2.21 a bushel. Within two days, sharp rises in eleven major commodities forced the Dow-Jones commodity futures index up 4.07 points to 146.37. It was the highest since the index was first compiled in 1933 and 9.82 points above the previous high this spring...
...Bull Market? The stockmarket, moving onward & upward for the eighth week in a row, reached a new high for the year. This prompted some financial writers to talk about "the new bull market now under way." The Dow-Jones industrial averages climbed 3.01 points to 184.77, the highest since last August...