Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wall Street's bull market last week made its biggest weekly jump of 1959. The Dow-Jones industrial average scooted up 15.51 points to close at 654.76. It was well above the previous alltime high of 643.79 set May 29. and more than 70 points ahead of where the average started on Jan. 1. Brokers expected the climb to continue. Not only was business news generally bright, but the record showed that industrials have advanced smartly in July and August in two years out of every three during the 20th century...
...surprised and quite thrilled when I looked at the picture of General Eisenhower visiting my old regiment prior to our jump into Normandy. I was standing just behind the naval officer when the picture was taken, and I had not yet blackened my face for the jump...
...gleefully printed an Associated Press picture (see. cut) of the tattered family and the shack of a striking Kentucky coal miner to il-lustrate its claim that millions of children in capitalist countries suffer from poverty. From such isolated instances, it is no trick for the Soviet press to jump to the sweeping generalization and, if necessary, to the outright lie ("While hungry American children look for a slice of stale bread, the stores are crammed with food which is left...
...rising level of U.S. consumer spending. Department-store sales in the week ending June 13 were 3% over last year, despite a sales-crippling newspaper strike in St. Louis. Fairchild News Service's own survey, covering specialty shops as well as department stores, showed a sales jump of 4% over the preceding week, the tenth such weekly rise. Another big reason for confidence is that manufacturers this year took pains to study their market. Many sent their designers on nationwide tours to sound out stores and shoppers on the kind of clothes women want to buy. The consensus...
...even sell one to the military. How's that for influence?" When it comes to pressuring for contracts, he charged that the real big leaguers are in Congress itself. "Every time some Congressman wants a contract for a hometown favorite, the Pentagon is supposed to jump." Businessmen noted that Representative Santangelo himself complained that New York was not getting its fair share of contracts; the West Coast was getting all the gravy...