Word: dows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army of dividend receivers suffers from serious disadvantages compared with former years. For one thing, it costs more and more to get on the dividends list. From 1950 to 1959. rapidly rising stock prices cut the average yield to a new buyer of the stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average from...
...north as Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan." Last week Phoenix proudly opened its brand-new, $500,000 Museum of Art, housing a collection of art valued at $2,600,000 in a handsome, low-lying, stuccoed masonry, glass and aluminum structure on North Central Avenue, designed by Architect Alden Dow. Along with the adjacent Little Theater and Public Library, the new museum now makes Phoenix a center of culture in the desert...
...current blacklist, drawn up in Cairo, names 48 American firms. Included are Empire Brushes Inc., Kaiser Industries Corp., Dow Chemical Co. and Plough Sales Corp., because they have branches or agencies in Israel. Individual Arab countries have their own blacklists, which are even more capriciously kept. Philco radios and air conditioners were banned in Saudi Arabia even after the firm's name was removed from the Arab League blacklist. Last February, after Elizabeth Taylor bought $100,000 worth of Israeli bonds, the United Arab Republic banned any further showing of her films in Syria and Egypt. Presumably the boycott...
...business community, where stocks and bonds traded on the New York Stock Exchange alone are worth some $382 billion today, v. $96 billion just two decades ago. Its high status is a far cry from its humble and parochial birth. Brainchild of three young men named Charles H. Dow, Edward D. Jones and Charles M. Bergstresser, who had made a modest mark by peddling financial news to customers around Wall Street, the Journal was conceived as a stock-market chronicle in 1889. When Dow. Jones & Co. was sold in 1902 to Clarence Walker Barron, a self-taught finance expert from...
...David C. Dow, Middlesex County medical examiner, pronounced Bachrach dead at Mt. Auburn Hospital. The body was recovered after dragging operations by an MDC launch. Bachrach was 20 years old and had passed the University swimming test...