Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technical reasons"-Wall Street's way of saying that everything which goes down must come up. But the market did not go up far, did not stay up long. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange, after soaring above 2,000,000 shares thrice in a month, fell back into its recent rut. By the peak of the rally, the Dow-Jones industrial averages had climbed only from...
Next year, when the presidency fell vacant, the disgruntled directors put Salesman Sandy Calder in the job on six-months' probation. He cut salaries and expenses $100,000 at once, shifted to imported pulp, at year's end had a neat $112,500 profit. A price war next year produced a deficit again, but since then Union has enjoyed steady profits. However, to take the drastic steps needed to catch up with the bag revolution, Sandy Calder needed control of the company. He and Brother Lou Calder, now president of Perkins-Goodwin, bought Union common stock steadily...
...similar situation occurred last July when potent Cargill Grain Co. held the long interest, and potent Farmers National Grain Corp. the short. At the last minute Farmers suddenly pulled 500,000 bu. of previously invisible corn out of the hat, gave Cargill a severe drubbing as the price fell 27?. Last week brokers suspected that Cargill was out to get even. However, there was little chance that a serious squeeze would materialize, for the Secretary of Agriculture has power to extend trading to prevent such things. Last week the Commodity Exchange Administration was visibly disturbed, uttered warnings about manipulation...
...historians can compare her new book with her old for a picture of changes that have come over U. S. manners during the 15 years in which Prohibition had its heyday and departed, in which the jazz age ran its course, in which women's skirts rose and fell and rose again like the curtain on a play, in which radio, automobiles, airplanes, and divorce altered the tempo of U. S. life. Examples of the new Etiquette's changes and additions...
...Toronto Exchange fell sharply with the New York market. Next day Gladstone Murray, chairman of Canadian Broadcasting Corp., announced that stockmarket commentators would henceforth be banned from the air. Reason: "We've had too many complaints from people who've taken advice from some of these commentaries...