Word: hectically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Telephone & Telegraph Co. When the Fed's news broke, less than half of the A.T. & T. issue had been sold; a half hour later, the issue was sold-and oversubscribed. Dozens of other slow-moving issues disappeared completely into investment portfolios during the bond market's hectic day. The rush to buy became so great that some underwriting syndicates were forced to ration their bonds by confining allotments to members...
Teller's hectic schedule has damaged his health: suffering from ulcerative colitis, he takes daily doses of atropine and phenobarbital, sticks to a doctor-ordered diet, painful for a man who devours food with Hungarian gusto. But a damaged constitution has not damped his crusader's fervor. The late great Nuclear Physicist Enrico Fermi once said to him, with affectionate exasperation: "In my acquaintance, you are the only monomaniac with several manias." Princeton Physicist John Wheeler, who worked on both the A-bomb and the H-bomb, put it more truly. The essence of Teller's character...
...action, after hectic diplomatic activity in the Big Three capitals, threatened a major rift in the Atlanic Alliance at a time of critical new efforts to draw it closer together...
...Wall Street it was the most hectic week in years. The stock market, which has been sliding gradually downhill for three months, suddenly nose-dived and opened the week with the biggest one-day break since 1955. The Dow-Jones industrial average plummeted ten points to 423.06, lowest level since May 1955. Every major group took a beating in the slump, with drops in such stocks as Du Pont, American Telephone & Telegraph, Bethlehem Steel, Goodyear, Alcoa and all but three of the 25 rails...
...Haiti, the peaceful election ended a hectic ten months of intermittent rioting and revolt during which six governments tumbled and two election attempts failed. Mild-mannered Dr. François Duvalier swept the countryside, rolled over the city majorities won by Planter Louis Déjoie, and emerged with 71% of the 950,000 votes cast. Some fraud was unquestionably committed; e.g., primitive, roadless La Gonave Island, with 13,300 voters in 1950, reported 18,941 Duvalier ballots to 463 for Déjoie. A hard-working doctor who has spent years working to eliminate yaws in Haiti...