Word: dows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four of the five trading days last week, Wall Street was warmed by a continuance of the spring rise in stocks. The Dow-Jones industrial average climbed 6.04 points to within a point of the year's high of 498.56 before being nipped by profit-taking. As it stood, stocks wound up the week at 497.54, some 43 points higher than the low for the year. Main reason: a continuing chorus of cheery first-quarter earnings reports...
Line of Duty. In Mt. Vernon, Ohio, State Liquor Inspector Dow Bronson Ayers was jailed for three days and fined $200 for drunken driving...
Like a bear emerging from hibernation, the stock market last week shook off the lethargy of many weeks and moved vigorously ahead. Starting the week at 479.04 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, the market advanced in heavy trading (marked by the busiest day in a year) to end the week at 486.72, the biggest price advance in three months. To many economists, it was a cheering sign that the market at last was taking note of the favorable business news it has been bearishly ignoring...
...Convair's newer, supersonic B58 Hustler bomber. Though Wilson's statement did nothing more than reflect the routine Pentagon procedure of constantly reappraising air needs, the Wall Street Journal blew it up into a long scare story headlined: PENTAGON WEIGHS FUTURE OF B-525 . . . and the Dow-Jones ticker carried a bulletin about the possible replacement of the B-52. In little more than an hour, Boeing dropped 3½ points from 52, reached a low of 47½ before the Air Force hastily announced that Boeing had firm orders for 502 B-52 bombers. At week...
...will give the investor a true idea of the average price of a single share of stock-a figure that has been lost in the inflated statistics of almost all market averages. On Dec. 31, for instance, Standard & Poor's daily industrial index closed at 498.9 and the Dow-Jones industrial average at 499.47, yet the New York Stock Exchange reported that the average value of one share of stock on that date was only $49.12, or about one-tenth as much...