Word: dows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...criterion, the second anniversary of World War II found the U.S. economy almost unchanged this week. Prices on the New York Stock Exchange, according to the Dow-Jones industrials average, were 127.70, against 134.41 when war began. But the Stock Exchange was an eccentric criterion. Two years of war have brought radical change in every other phase of U.S. business...
...present London boom has left Wall Street far behind. In August, while London hit new highs, Wall Street prices lazily backed and filled-mostly backed. To catch up with the London rise since last April, the Dow-Jones industrial average would have to jump about 15 points. Question-of-the-week in Wall Street: Does London's bullish market point...
...Even Wall Street, No. 1 nonparticipant in the arms boom, stirred to partial life last week. With two 1,000,000-share days in a row on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow-Jones industrial average gained 3% for the week, from...
...McCormack, $5,274,911 against $354,416 in 1939; American-Hawaiian, a $3,431,169 profit against $992,524 in 1939. Shipping shares have enjoyed a spectacular boom on the New York Stock Exchange, rising about 150% since war's outbreak-faster than any other group-while the Dow-Jones industrials average was declining from...
They sold Engineering Society of Detroit's President Jim Parker (chief engineer of Detroit Edison) and their directing board on the idea, got several thousand dollars to spend on it, secured endorsements from Detroit Edison's crusty Alex Dow, University of Michigan's Engineering Dean Emeritus M. E. Cooley, and technical sage Charles Franklin Kettering of General Motors. Then they made contact with Michigan's 2,200 employers of engineering skill, asked each to distribute questionnaires in his plants...