Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacific Coast last week came frosts. Blighted were peaches, apricots, walnuts, plums, prunes, almonds, grapes, potatoes, and Kolster Radio. The frost on the crops was an act of Providence. The slump in Kolster Radio proceeded from a 1928 earnings statement that showed earnings of 20? a share. Kolster stock has been prominent on the Coast partly through the fact that Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels (TIME, Nov. 19) is chairman of its board, partly through public interest in radio television, talking pictures, and similar manifestations of science in the fields of entertainment and communication. Thus Kolster stock boomed. Lately, however, worried...
...acts the play is packed with amusing lines, sound opinion and excellently shaded acting; the dialogue and general tempo are brisk. But then unfortunately there comes a slump. The last act is a great disappointment. Not that one necessarily expects any noteworthy conclusion to be drawn from the good-natured prattling which has taken place: one does nevertheless feel considerably let down when the final act rolls to a flat and disappointing conclusion...
...stock then fell off in the December slump. Present Montgomery Ward quotations of 141¼ are, of course, for the new issue. †Atlas Powder Co. paid an actual dividend of $20.27, the difference accruing from the sale of holdings in Canadian Industries, Ltd. The $6.30 figure denotes profit from operations alone. **Ward Class "B" Common paid $.71 a share with a high for the year of 241⅝ making a ratio...
...Hoover Market" had a big slump...
...Market opens the week wavering, progresses into a slump, ends with a crash. At the end of the week Speculator Smith's investments have shown the following results...