Word: preholiday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saturday's preholiday two-hour trading session showed clearly that U. S. investors were eager to cut themselves into war profits. War stocks continued to zoom and the Dow-Jones industrial average hit 137.97, helped by war babies, unhurt by nonwar stocks, which generally stood still or picked up small gains. Between 10 o'clock and noon 1,791,250 shares changed hands...
...state dinner at the White House ended the Supreme Court's preholiday session. The Justices and their ladies found the table decorated with pink chrysanthemums, ate a bit of cheese for National Cheese Week, were entertained by Pianist Josef Hofmann and Soprano Frieda Hempel afterward...
...White House last week filled with preholiday social activities. As house guests the President and Mrs. Roosevelt had Mrs. William Randolph Hearst and Mr. Jacques F. Danielson & wife (Fannie Hurst). After a large dinner the Sedalia Singers of Palmer Memorial Institute, Sedalia, N. C. performed at a musicale.* Next day Mrs. Roosevelt entertained Mrs. Hearst and Miss Hurst by taking them into one of the President's regular press conferences...
Steel Operations for the week ended Sept. 14 were at slightly better than 30%, compared with the Labor Day week average of 28½%, but below the preholiday level of 31%. In the like period last year the average rose...