Word: dows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SALTWATER CONVERSION plant will be built near Houston, Texas by Government to convert more than a million gallons of sea water daily into scarce fresh water for city and Dow Chemical Co. Plant will be finished by early 1961 at cost of $1.5 million, is first of five to be authorized (total cost: $10 million) in the search for economic methods of conversion...
...P.G.A. Golf Tournament (CBS, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). Dow Finsterwald will defend his title at the Minneapolis Golf Club...
Watching these developments, Wall Street began to sweat. Major steel shares worried off several points, and the Dow-Jones index of industrial stocks dipped from 663.56 to 657.13-despite the fact that steelmakers are expected to report high earnings in the next fortnight. To others, the strike was a cause for joy: foreign steel producers heavily stepped up steel shipments to the U.S., hoped to make strong inroads at the idling industry's expense...
Wall Street's bull market last week made its biggest weekly jump of 1959. The Dow-Jones industrial average scooted up 15.51 points to close at 654.76. It was well above the previous alltime high of 643.79 set May 29. and more than 70 points ahead of where the average started on Jan. 1. Brokers expected the climb to continue. Not only was business news generally bright, but the record showed that industrials have advanced smartly in July and August in two years out of every three during the 20th century...
...dirt. Several solid issues scraped their year's low. American Export Lines (which hit a crest of 34⅝ this year) slipped to 28⅞; Freeport Sulphur slumped to 27⅝ from the year's high of 37⅜. United Aircraft, one of the stocks in the Dow-Jones average, was off to 52½ from...