Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bonds), which are generally regarded by Britons to be as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar, sagged to a two-year low, then rallied slightly. The scare caused a shiver in Wall Street, where the ten-week long upswing in stock prices suddenly halted. The Dow-Jones industrial index dropped 3.85 points from the July high of 187.66. This week the market slipped off again, with steel and automobile shares leading the drop...
What prompted Williamson to change his mind was not mentioned. But the drop in the diamond market-from sales of some $30 million last year to an estimated $15 million this year-undoubtedly had much to do with...
When C's start running to D's and the little girl is busy every night, drop over to the room of Michael Rothenberg '49 and try some luck at breaking the better half of a wishbone with him. He's got 350 of them in what he calls "the largest collection in the world" draped over his Eliot House fireplace...
...recent coal-mine wage boosts, said steelmen, were the last straw on a pile of increased costs which they have been absorbing. The increases in steel wages last spring, said Republic, had amounted to "approximately $4.50 per ton of steel" and had caused a drop in the second quarter profits (see Earnings...
...Federal Reserve Index of Industrial Production. Yet, paradoxically, a majority of executives in manufacturing, transportation, utilities and construction expected their own gross sales to be at least as high as in the booming first half of the year. A majority also expected a 5-to-15% drop in the cost of living, but only a minority expected to reduce their own prices...