Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leverett came right back and proceeded to march 70 yards down to the Deacon two-yard stripe. The march was featured by right end Bob Seaman's spectacular catch of Rick Rabenold's aerial on the five-yard line. Here, however, the Deacons dug in, and the Rabbit thrust ended...
...shocks last week hit U. S. stock-markets. The first was 100% spectacular. Henceforth Tuesday. Oct. 19 can lay claim to being the most startling single day in stockmarket history since famed Oct. 29, 1929. Prices ended about where they started, but in between they went through an excursion similar to Dr. Beebe's junkets to the bottom of the sea in a bathysphere. Prices on Monday had fallen in the worst break of the current decline and everyone anticipated that opening prices Tuesday would be down as a result of widespread margin calls...
...second shock was less spectacular but more illogical. Three weeks before the current market slump began in industrial stocks on Aug. 15, railroad shares had started down as the public gradually became aware of the fact that railroad operation costs had grown much faster than revenues (TIME, Sept. 13). With this crisis becoming more acute, the decline in railroad shares dragged down simultaneously the operations of many a basic industry, best example being steel. Hobbled by several factors, among them curtailment of railroad equipment orders,* steel production last week stood at 55.8% of capacity down from its spring high...
Early this week, though steel production dwindled to 52.1%, U. S. Steel perversely led the market back up the ladder, $6.13 up to close at $58.63. Rails were full of vigor, but Chrysler was the most spectacular stock of all, jumping $9.50 to $69.75. Highlight of the 2,000,000-share trading was a 51-minute "reverse air-pocket" during which a would-be buyer of 5,000 shares of Chrysler could find no offering...
...because of his co-authorship of The Road to Plenty, which predicted a perpetual upward spiral of prices & profits, the latter because as the self-made head of Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp.., he was a millionaire many times over and the floater of Wall Street's two most spectacular investment trusts, Shenandoah and Blue Ridge. When they collapsed with Depression, Waddill Catchings, by then a director of 29 corporations, left Goldman, Sachs, has since been associated with Millionaire Harrison Williams whose North American Co. with $900,000.000 assets is one of the biggest utility holding companies...