Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fuel lines, the New York stock market had sputtered upward in short uncertain bursts. One day last week the lines cleared and it began a steady climb. In the busiest session since mid-July, 1,800,000 shares were traded, with such blue chips as U.S. Steel, General Motors, and Standard Oil (N.J.) leading the parade. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.32 points, biggest gain since the bullish days of last July. At week's end, the Dow-Jones average was 190.19, up 9.78 points in twelve days and not far from the year's high...
...boom was going as strong as ever; the Federal Reserve Board reported that September production had been the same as in August, just short of the postwar peak. In the reports that began pouring in last week, many third-quarter earnings proved to be much fatter than expected (example: General Electric's $29.2 million was up 49% from the similar 1947 quarter). And joyful shareholders cashed in. Earnings were so good for some 21 corporations that they declared extra dividends. Republic Steel, with its earnings ($12.8 million) more than doubled, declared extra dividends in both cash (25?) and common...
...Dayton Rubber Co., Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., General Tire & Rubber Co., B. F. Goodrich Co., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Lee Rubber & Tire Corp., Seiberling Rubber Co., and United States Rubber...
With these words, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago last week wrote an end to one of the war's most frantic commodity scrambles (TIME, Sept. 23, 1946). It cleared General Foods Corp. and Brokers Daniel F. Rice & Co. of charges that they had cornered the rye market. It also ruled out Department of Agriculture orders suspending them from trading...
...Department had based its case on the fact that General Foods had bought 2,000,000 bushels of rye which were about to be dumped on the market-though it and Rice already controlled almost 89% of deliverable rye. The court held, in effect, that this was no cornering move; General Foods was merely following the sound trading practice of protecting its heavy investment in rye against a price slump...