Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of the timing, traders assumed that the news would be bad for the market (it turned out to be the President's authorization of the draft). Without waiting to find out what it was, they nervously started to dump their newly purchased stocks. Prices dropped. Hardest hit by the new selling wave were the stocks of television companies; they tumbled as much as 4½ points. In two jittery hours, the blue-chip Dow-Jones industrial index also dropped 2.39 points to 208.59, wiping out all but a small fraction of its earlier gain. As this week...
...Professor & the Dump Heap. When the headlines fade away, it will probably be clear that Professor Owen Lattimore (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) is neither a Russian spy nor a Communist, and that his accuser, Senator Joseph McCarthy, is an irresponsible demagogue. But the fact that Lattimore is no Soviet agent does not clear him of having had, in less dramatic ways, a disastrous influence on the foreign policy of his country...
...policy in Asia in recent years had led to disasters many times worse than Pearl Harbor. Yet it was not fair either to Lattimore or the U.S. Government to charge, as McCarthy did and does, that Lattimore was the "chief architect" of that policy. Dump heaps have no architects. But Lattimore's' ideas did work to thwart the development of an effective program of U.S. help to anti-Communist forces in Asia...
...differences between what I remember and what exists. In crowded places like Coney Island I see how a man sits, how he looks at his children. On a trip south I see how a road turns. In Chattanooga last year I stood for two days in a filthy dump to paint a mule-my shoes are still in Tennessee...
...Crimson plays the same brand of ball it showed against Yale, it might very well dump the favored Lions. Ed Smith's improved set shooting should give Rockwell a better chance to work under the basket, and if the man to man defense presses as well as it did against the Elis' double pivots, Frank Lewis and John Azary should be checked...