Word: dows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that some specialists had trouble opening their stocks. Not until 10:18 a.m., for example, did U.S. Steel open on a huge block of 25,000 shares, up 3 5/8 at 55½; Du Pont jumped six points on a block of 4,000 shares. By the close the Dow-Jones industrial average was up to 470.64, a gain of 4.92 points...
...Frank Dow Merrill, then an obscure, 40-year-old U.S. infantry officer, found his crisis in Burma. Under command of General Joseph Stilwell, the Allies were set to drive across northern Burma to Myitkyina, key Japanese defense base and main air base from which fighters menaced the allied air route over "the Hump" to China. With a newly built road eastward from Ledo in northern India, they would intersect the Burma Road, reopen the land route to China...
...home, stopping at a Florida motel near Jacksonville, Frank Dow Merrill, 52, suffered his fourth and final heart attack...
Died. Major General (ret.) Frank Dow Merrill, 52, leader of World War II's jungle-fighting "Merrill's Marauders"; of a heart attack; in Fernandina Beach, Fla. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Downing Bland Jenks, 40, moved up from executive vice president to president of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (14th largest), succeeding John Dow Farrington, who continues as chief executive officer in the new position of board chairman. Yaleman ('37) Jenks helped operate military railroads in Africa, Italy and Germany in World War II, was general manager of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois before Farrington brought him to the Rock Island...