Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a puzzled broker last week: "People have been waiting for a reaction. When it doesn't come they get restless and buy anyway." He was talking about a phenomenon that baffled but delighted brokers last week. For three days more than 1,000,000 shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange. More, the market turned in the best Saturday (680,320 shares) since last September. Net result: a three-and-a-half-point rise in the Dow-Jones industrials average, to a six-month high...
...Rayburn and McCormack vigorously tried to persuade the President to change his mind. A veto, they argued, would simply mean throwing away more than two billion dollars in revenue. Why not let this bill become law without his signature? A veto would stir up fresh bitterness in an already restless and resentful Congress...
...restless Saudi Arabia sits the brooding figure of Ibn Saud, dominant leader of the Moslem world, while the U.S. undertakes for the first time to challenge British dominance in Middle Eastern oil (TIME...
Then weary men, with a restless look in their eyes, sat behind the front and talked: of the "awful accurate" fire by Jerry snipers and machine gunners, of the bare and hostile Italian field sprinkled by shrapnel, of the muddy holes, of hopelessness and death. They said: "It's sure not a soft...
Orson Welles recuperated with Rita Hayworth Welles (see cut) at Miami Beach-he from jaundice, she from the flu. Restless Actor-Director Welles said he had definitely added politics to his interests, reminded the press that he was Chairman of the Action Committee of the American Free World Association...