Word: dows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flak around Hanover but not a fighter until we got near the IP (Initial Point). That first baby came in dead ahead-zingity dow. Then there were about 25 of them-110s, 190s and 410s-the 190s are the worst...
...that baffled but delighted brokers last week. For three days more than 1,000,000 shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange. More, the market turned in the best Saturday (680,320 shares) since last September. Net result: a three-and-a-half-point rise in the Dow-Jones industrials average, to a six-month high...
...Praised Michigan's Dow Chemical Co. which, with its licensees, turned out 61% of all U.S. magnesium last year...
...Balm for Dow. To Dow Chemical (only prewar U.S. magnesium manufacturer) the mild praise was sweet. But even sweeter to the company's white-haired president, Dr. Willard H. Dow, was the deathblow the Committee gave to the popular belief that the U.S. magnesium shortage was due to an agreement between Dow, Alcoa and Germany's I.G. Farben. Under that deal-so the libelous rumor ran-Dow magnesium manufacture was limited, while German production was kited. Other agreements brought antitrust indictments down on the heads of Dow and Alcoa in 1941, forced them...
...Committee had now found that the agreement "probably assisted in fabricating magnesium and increasing its commercial use in the U.S." though price differentials may have kept newcomers out of the field. "Dow Chemical was never limited in its production." Rather, it "incurred original losses in order to produce magnesium. Without [Dow's] interest the production of magnesium in the U.S. might not have been so great...