Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hovering sympathetically by, he took off his shirt and wrapped it around his broken head to keep blood off the demonstrator's upholstery. He got into the car. Thomson slid behind the wheel, drove a few hundred yards north. Then, at a point where there was no guard rail, he turned the machine toward the edge...
...ripple of cutbacks in industry gave Wall Street another scare last week. In two days of selling, the Dow-Jones industrial average lost 5.77 points, closed the week at 259.71, the low for the year; the rail average dropped 3.95 to 92.97. In the first day of this week's trading, industrials dropped another 4.22, rails 2.41. What set off the newest break in stocks was bad news from the auto industry, particularly that Studebaker was laying off 5,000 workers and cutting production by a third to help clear out dealers' inventories. Said company President Harold Vance...
...well. He said he was slipping-not doing as much work as he used to, and not doing it so well. He fretted about finances. He got so "nervous" that he could not stand the coltish antics of his younger children. Every trip on the rachitic Long Island Rail Road, every decision in the office or at home tied him up in knots...
...this mean that Bear Fox, who also believes that the market mirrors the future and that falling stocks mean that business will decline too, thought there were no buys left? Not at all: "Some of the rail stocks are getting so cheap in relation to their basic worth, that whatever may be the extent of further decline in the market, they are sure to show a profit in the long run . . . Some of them will even begin to look like mighty attractive purchases on a further decline...
...Communists tried prohibition. They clamped a ban on rail travel to West Berlin, and enforced it with machine pistols in the railroad stations. This precipitated a war of wits: some hunger marchers bought tickets to points beyond West Berlin, then dropped off the trains to collect their food. The Reds temporarily eased up, then put the ban back on. They seemed uncertain how to act: remembering the uprisings of June 17, they dared not push their people too hard. For what people would do to get those ten pounds of lard, dried beans, flour and canned milk was a measure...