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...dull stockmarket Eastern Air Lines sparkled with starry brightness, climbed from $42 a share...
...Wall Street, there was a touch of the old fever. Three days in a row the roaring stockmarket pushed sales up to more than 2,000,000 shares. In one wild last hour's trading, 800,000 shares changed hands. Twice the high speed ticker fell behind. Result: the Dow-Jones industrial averages soared to 156.68, highest since the war-begotten boomlet of September 1939. The rail averages kept pace with them. At 51.35, railroad stocks were at their peak since 1937, when the last big bull market fell on its face...
...hardly over the worst of this crisis when, along with the stockmarket, the Evening World collapsed, and Bud's job, and his money. So, for a second time, did his daughter. Some of her friends believe that her whole career has been an effort to vindicate her father. Anita Colby seems occasionally to feel so, and says with passionate intensity: "I have always had dignity. No matter how long I live I will always have it. I will keep scandal away. I will not go out with the town playboy...
...flowed freely. It flowed into department stores. Their sales were a big 10% over the year before. It flowed into real estate. Homeowners sold out at high profits-until they found that all profits were not enough to buy another roof for over their heads. Money flowed into the stockmarket, bulling up stocks month after month until they reached their highest point since 1940. There was money for everything, for jewels, for mink coats, for Broadway shows...
...weeks the New York stockmarket has dawdled while buyers tried to make up their minds about the war. Last week, they came to a decision they were willing to bet on: Germany will last for another six months, at least. Result: the market surged upwards in five successive million-share days. And the bellwether Dow-Jones industrial averages, which reclined in the optimistic days of last September, rose to their highest point, 151, since January...