Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 25 years, one statistic has spelled for Wall Streeters the excitement and romance of the Roaring Twenties. The figure was 381.17, the highest closing point reached by the Dow-Jones industrial average in the 1929 bull market. In all the years since, investors hardly expected the market to reach such a peak again-until this year. Last week the big bull market of 1954, which has been surging up for five straight weeks, finally crashed through the 1929 industrial high...
Soapbox Y. Salon. It is startling to recall that Wilde, whose works read like period pieces, and Shaw, whose works seem almost contemporary, were born in the same year. Shaw proved more durable: he grew old enough to reach his second childhood, while Wilde never quite outgrew his first. Yet, like Shaw, Wilde resembled a fountain of social defiance. Both men were socialists, both loved to confound and educate their audiences with startling paradoxes, both were masters of clear, succinct prose. One of the many major differences between them was that Shaw believed style to be a byproduct of sincerity...
...newest and fastest-growing sources of new capital in the U.S. economy is the vast program of private pension funds. There are now 20,000 separate corporate plans covering in million workers, or 17% of the whole U.S. labor force. Their assets this year will reach $19 billion, and they are growing at the rate of $2 billion each year. By 1960, pension funds will have estimated assets of $35 billion and new contributions will be pouring in at the rate of $6 billion annually-30% of all savings available for new investment. For businessmen, the big problem...
...Yardlings tried desperately to counter with a passing attack of their own, but Crimson receivers dropped or failed to reach most of tailback Walt Stahura's attempts. The Crimson's only two completed passes gained no appreciable yardage...
...implemented, the new plan would swing delegates' attention from constructive action to the petty intrigue of national rivalry. For, while an individual can make the concessions necessary to reach agreement on issues, the same grants would mean loss of face to a national representative. Although spokesmen for Moscow now pattern their views on the narrow interests of their particular countries, this minority of bound votes is too small to effect the group's supranational outlook. In seeking to bind all of the delegates to national interests, the United States may be stifling one of the UN's most effective commissions...