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...will and, by selling in preparation for the shakeout, cause it to happen. But there was no reason that it had to happen. "This market," chirpily insisted Wall Street Analyst Ben Davis, "is a one-way street, which will run without appreciable reaction up to the dead-end marker...
Most bulls were betting that the deadend marker would not be reached until the industrial average hit at least 250, a relatively conservative mark of only ten times current earnings. The Chicago Journal of Commerce's Justin Barbour, the Middle-west's expert on the Dow theory, went even further. "The current rise is still the first primary rise of this bull market," wrote he. "Barring war [it] is likely to run into 1951 and above 300 for the industrial average." And J. H. Allen of Manhattan's Cohu & Co. bravely predicted that this was only...
...next morning a tug spotted the Truculent's emergency marker buoy. The web-booted, goggled divers, known in the service as "frogmen," battled all morning to reach the hull of the sub. At 12:25 p.m., the frogmen sent up a chilling message: "No signals can be heard...
Chuck Brynteson was the main factor in the Funster victory last night. Stealing the ball from the Eliotmen in the last 30 seconds of the game, he sank a basket to put his teammates ahead by one point. Fouled on the shot, Brynteson proceeded to add another marker to the total with his successful foul shot. Another Brynteson foul goal put an end to the 41 to 38 contest...
Last week, on the eve of getting his medal, Simon took cold, a day later died. In a dark wood coffin draped with the Union Jack, he was buried in a pet cemetery at Ilford, Essex. A wooden marker at his head bore the epitaph: "In Honored Memory of Simon...