Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unprecedented U.S. building activity helped Johns-Manville Corp. nail up a net of $10.1 million, a 75% gain. Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., which benefited from both the building and auto booms, boosted its $9,100,000 net to $15 million...
...three weeks, war's tremors had sent stocks plunging until almost half the bull market's previous gains were wiped out. Last week, the market caught its second wind, won back the biggest week's gain in 42 years. The Dow-Jones industrial average soared 7.82 points to close...
...that he had not made the mistake. He had preached an infantryman's belief in the foot soldier. "Air power, like every other weapon," he wrote, "has gaping limitations for war as we shall know it for many years to come . . . We shall once more be forced to gain the inevitable victory over our dead bodies-those of our soldiers on the ground...
...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's trading began, television stocks again dropped as much as 4¼ points on fears that war might curtail production of TV sets...
...market had risen steadily for a year and, traditionally, such a rise usually has a reaction that knocks the industrial average down as much as one-third of the gain. This was just about what last week's loss amounted to. Thus, barring too much bad news, many traders thought that the market would now find a firm footing around the current level. But whether it would start up again depended less upon earnings and economic facts than upon the psychological building up of confidence again in the bull market...