Word: dows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock market entered 1958 in an upbeat mood. After months of slow decline, a record 5,073,730 shares changed hands on the last trading day of 1957. Despite the flood of shares offered by traders to establish tax losses, the Dow-Jones Industrial Average rose 3.91 points. Thereafter, with the selling pressure off, the index bounded another 8.87 points in the first two trading days of 1958, ended at 444.56, well above the low of 419.79 set two months...
...series and most agreeable surprise is deftly dedicated to the proposition that boys will be boys. Its hero is an eight-year-old boy named Beaver ("Is that your given name?" asks a puzzled teacher. "Yes, my brother give it to me"). Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and brother Wally (Tony Dow). 12, and their attractive parents (Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley) add up to a pleasant, occasionally touching image of togetherness in sunny suburbia. But the boys are also lineal descendents of Tom Sawyer. Penrod and Skippy in a tradition of carrying a dead goldfish in pants pocket, enduring the first...
...mood gradually turned from nail-biting to cool appraisal. The quick shift in sentiment was clear on Wall Street, which for a change accurately reflected business opinion through 1957. In January and February, when the first gloom-sayers gave tongue, stocks tumbled 44 points to 454.82 on the Dow-Jones industrial average. Later, when it became apparent that the initial pessimism was overdone, the market soared to within only a quarter of a point of the alltime 521.05 high reached in 1956. Then in October, with the first signs of trouble, it came whistling down more than 100 points...
...Gazette has played a leading role in breaking dow?n our segregation laws, and at last bringing upon the people of Little Rock the most insufferable outrage ever visited upon an American city. There is a rising tide of race feeling-in fact, a revolution is beginning in the South. Your store and all stores that advertise in the Arkansas Gazette will be placed on one side or the other. This is your notice to make your own choice...
...unemployment would have to double to 5,000,000 (most economists foresee 4,000,000 by spring). The only part of the U.S. economy that has dropped far enough to be in a serious recession is the stock market. It plummeted 19% to a low of 419.79 on the Dow-Jones industrial average before bouncing back a bit. By odd contrast, Wall Street ignored the 1953-54 slump, and prices on the stock market held steady...