Word: slides
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...slide in Wall Street affected the world's other stock exchanges? To the delight of foreign investors, the shock has been small. While there was a ripple of selling on some exchanges, it seemed to be over by last week...
...Morons." Would the Combs home measure up? A spotless $17,000 ranch house, it is filled with toys and African violets; the yard has swings, a slide, a sandbox. On his $119-a-week salary, Dick Combs hoped some day to send both Alice Marie and his own two younger daughters to college. Nor was there any question of Alice Marie's affection for her foster parents. Often she woke in the night, crying: "Mommy, are you still here?" But the social workers were unsatisfied, lined up what they considered more suitable parents, a childless couple with 1) more...
...supposedly were not buying for this reason. But the big surprise of the market was that the "glamour" growth stocks, e.g., Polaroid, Ampex and Texas Instruments, selling as high as 50 times earnings, v. 15 times earnings for blue chips, had held up better than other stocks during the slide and were still close to their peaks. Many other specialty stocks whose growth potential has been recognized by investors also gained during the drop...
Originally a trombone player, McCoy says he switched to trumpet when his trombone slide kept knocking off ladies' hats during choir practice at the Methodist Church in his home town, Portsmouth, Ohio. In the '30s, Bandleader McCoy was a consistent winner of a jazz-magazine poll labeling him "The King of Corn." The title never bothered...
...signs of encouragement. According to the Dow theory, if the industrials break through their recent low, followed by the rails going through their last low, a bear market has started. Last week the industrials plunged through their low of Sept. 22, and the theorists suspensefully watched the rails slide down. The rails got right down to their fall low of 146.65, then scooted up again without breaking through. To the Dow theorists, this was an encouraging sign...