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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the selling was in odd lots (less than 100 shares) from all across the U.S., and stocks were dumped at any price in a flurry of panicky selling by small investors, often in direct contradiction to the economic facts. The market rout was also aided by professional short selling, and forced sales to meet margin calls from brokers (though such calls went out to only about 5% of margin accounts...
...plus volume days. Despite the attrition of the early week, its aggregate value rose about $1.2 billion for the week, and the Dow-Jones average gained 1.32 points. Significantly, institutional buyers and mutual funds held fast during the market's gyrations, steadily bought up stocks-often at bargain prices...
...afraid of the fact that as one friend says: "Every time he picks up his pencil, there is $300 million at stake." When he is not busy with meetings and administrative problems, he wanders through the studios, changing a line here, suggesting a new idea there, often makes dozens of sketches a day. Gregarious and anxious to keep his temperamental underlings happy, he chats with everyone he meets, shakes hands so much that he even shakes hands with his secretary on his way in and out of his office. "I even kiss the employees' babies at our open houses...
Fallen Figures. In most of the stories there is no either-or solution but only a questioning maybe. God is ambivalent, man contorted both in soul and action, and evil often wears the face of good. Thus, in Copenhagen Season, the very strength of a soldier's love loses him the prize he wants; in A Country Tale, a proud nobleman is forced to his knees at the foot of a murderer who mysteriously may be his alter ego; in Echoes, a prima donna finds her lost voice only to lose all hope of using it. The characters...
...proprietor of a gin mill known as "Mat's." He simply wrote down what the man said. What resulted was that great Irish art form known as conversation, which, at its best, is always above and beyond the call of truth. In his later stories, McNulty often slipped into the habit of giving Mat his real name-Timothy Athena Costello, proprietor of Costello's Restaurant, Third Avenue at 44th...