Word: bleakest
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...irrepressible was Blue Monday's selling pressure that more than 4,000,000 shares changed hands in the final 30 minutes of trading, and the last transaction did not clear the ticker tape until 2½ hours after closing. In the second bleakest day in Wall Street's history, the Dow-Jones industrial index plunged 34.95 to 576.93-21% below its peak of last December...