Word: dows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock drops in value, many companies provide truck-sized loophole's to let workers escape from their payments. Inland Steel, Delta C & S Air Lines, Atlanta's Citizens' & Southern National Bank and Dow Chemical all hold the stock until the final payment is made; then if a worker decides that he does not want the stock, his money is returned...
...estimate of "that old village atheist", Sinclair Lewis, erred only in regard to height. Whereas some of these new "churches" [Sept. 19] reflect a Middle Dow-Jones influence, or what's new in well-designed factories, others resemble surrealistic storm cellars...
...Mackey; Springfield, Mass.'s Congregation Beth El, Percival Goodman; Tucson's Faith Lutheran Church, Arthur T. Brown; Pacific Palisades, Calif.'s St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons; Midland, Mich.'s St. John's Lutheran Church, Alden B. Dow; Houston's St. John the Divine, Fred J. MacKie and Karl F. Kamrath with Hiram A. Salisbury; Los Angeles' St. Brigid's, Alfred V. Chaix and Ralph W. Johnson...
...Cost. When all was over, the session added up to the blackest 5½ hours the New York Stock Exchange had seen since Oct. 29, 1929. All told, 7,720,000 shares, more than double the usual number, had been traded. On the Dow-Jones averages, industrials plummeted 31.89 points, rails 11.15 points, utilities 2.46 points; in industrials the nose dive just about matched the drop that occurred when the market first collapsed in 1929. Overall, the composite average of 65 stocks showed a drop of 10.76 points to 162.75. Half the entire 1955 gain had been wiped...
...bull market reacted with a snort and a charge last week to the cheery news of stock splits and mergers. By week's end it had smashed records across much of the board. On the Dow-Jones averages, industrials zoomed closer to the magic 500 mark, shot up four points to close out the week at 487.45 and an alltime high. After a slow start, railroads picked up 1½ points on the final day to close at 164.28. Only utilities failed to make headway...