Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bull market last week reached a goal that market seers have predicted for two years might be the top. The goal: 250 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, a rise of 56 points since the slump after the outbreak of the Korean war. But after hitting 250, stocks kept right on rising, and at week's end the market hit 253.92, highest point since June of 1930. This week despite the tax bill and rail strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the market rang up still another new high of 255.17. The upsurge was so impressive that even the seers...
...draftees serve for 21 or 27 months, enrollment would slump off for two years and then pick up again. "Harvard can go for two years without disastrous results and without raising the charges," Bender said...
...Dwight Taylor & Reginald Lawrence; produced by Saint Subber & Lemuel Ayers) is as festal and glittering to look at as a Christmas tree. But under the tree, precious few gifts are displayed. Often, while the eye feasts on Lemuel Ayers sets and costumes, the mind wanders and the spirits slump. The decor aside, nothing in Out of This World is even remotely out of the top drawer...
Ever since the new credit restrictions put car sales into a slump, auto dealers have been looking for a way to bring them back up. Last week two San Francisco auto dealers thought they had found it. Instead of selling cars under the new controls, which require a one-third down payment and the balance in 15 months, they were leasing cars to all comers. The dealers: James F. Waters Inc., which claims to be the largest Plymouth-De Soto dealer in the U.S., and Transportation Lease Co., an organization of 32 Ford dealers...
...stay in business." In Detroit, the used-car capital, prices were down an average of $300, with most of the decline occurring last week. Even at that, sales were slow. Though the used-car lots were hit the hardest, new-car salesmen were also feeling the pinch. With the slump in used-car prices, dealers were forced to slash their trade-in allowances. One Hudson dealer in Detroit who had sold 30 cars two weeks ago last week sold just five...