Word: dows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be paying for the loss in coal and steel production for a long time to come. It would be more than a month before overall production got back to where it was-if then. The stock market, full of rosy hopes for a quick resurgence, pushed the Dow-Jones industrial index up 4.75 points in the first post-strike day of business. But the all-around shaking up which the economy had had might well hasten the recession that nearly everybody feared...
...stockmarket, confident of Republican victory, had gone up over 10 points (Dow-Jones industrial averages) in the four days before election. But when victory came, the market fell, the worst drop in two months. Commodity prices fell also. Probable reasons: short-term speculators read G.O.P. talk of a big U.S. budget cut as a deflationary measure, grabbed their profits. They ignored talk of the corollary tax cut, which, by putting more cash in the hands of consumers, would help business all around...
...butchers' counters - at $1-&-up a pound. Lard and other meat by-products edged up toward 70? a pound. Dazed by the sight of so many rare items, the people went on a two-day buying spree-a mood reflected by a six-point jump in the Dow-Jones industrial index.* Then they hesitated...
...belief that the stampede would slash future demands for feed, corn prices dropped 32? a bushel. Wheat was down also, along with oats. By week's end, the Dow-Jones commodity-futures index had fallen seven points, the biggest since 1933 when the index was started...
...week, their furniture piled in 20 trucks. In the quiet of the supper hour, they tootled off in search of housing. They made a feint at the well-protected R.C.A.F barracks downtown, then headed for the Navy's wartime barracks - H.M.C.S. Carleton - on Ottawa's outskirts near Dow's Lake...